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8 Ways in Which India’s Public Healthcare Can Change for the Better

January 9, 2020

Dr Vijesh, Pallium India’s project coordinator, shares this excellent article on how India’s health system could improve: Read: 8 Ways in Which India’s Public Healthcare [...]
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Project Aarohan: Transforming Beneficiaries to Change-makers

January 8, 2020

Project Aarohan empowers patients and caregivers to mobilise community It is encouraging to see recent developments in healthcare move towards patient-centric care. Patient involvement and [...]
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The Year that Was

January 1, 2020

This past year saw Pallium India traverse many a new territory, encounter several challenges and partner with incredible people, organizations and communities. It also brought [...]
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Caution about gabapentin and pregabalin:

December 31, 2019

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns of possible serious breathing difficulties in patients using gabapentin or pregabalin in the presence of respiratory risk [...]
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Dilasa on fast-forward mode in Goa!

December 30, 2019

It is only eight months since we reported on Dilasa Palliative care centre in Goa. It was very good to revisit them. In a short [...]
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India should get back to stay on Dr Anne Merriman’s path.

December 28, 2019

It is a constant struggle. Opium is grown in India and morphine should be available at low cost for those in pain. But that of [...]
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Thank you for promising to be there for me even if in your eyes I am a sinner, Archbishop Paglia.

December 27, 2019

Dr M. R. Rajagopal, Chairman of Pallium India, writes: Most of us in palliative care do not justify euthanasia, whether or not you call it [...]
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Congratulations Esther Munyoro!

December 22, 2019

We are so very glad to see that Dr Esther Munyoro has been awarded “The Order of the Grand Warrior” by the President of Kenya “in [...]
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Why do young doctors take up palliative care?

December 18, 2019

Dr M. R. Rajagopal, Chairman of Pallium India, writes: I met these two young doctors at the Annual conference of Association of Radiation Oncologists of [...]
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Kerala’s palliative care policy revised:

December 11, 2019

It is only a few months since Pallium India requested a revision of Kerala’s Palliative care policy. Thanks to the special interest taken by the [...]