A welcome verdict; and a few concerns Dr M. R. Rajagopal, Chairman of Pallium India, writes: The judgement of the Supreme Court pertaining to validity [...]
IAPCON 2018, New Delhi Pallium India’s Chairman, Dr M. R. Rajagopal, writes: The growth of palliative care in India was clearly made visible at the [...]
IJPC – Methadone Special Supplement The latest issue of Indian Journal of Palliative Care (Jan-Mar 2018) focuses on Methadone, with articles by M. R. Rajagopal, [...]
“Differently abled” is too inadequate a term. “Exceptionally abled” would be more like it. They are achievers battling the odds that an insensitive society offers [...]
Advancing palliative care in Bhutan Thanks to Ms Phuntsho Om and Ms Tara Devi, who took the initiative to find us and to come to [...]
A sixth of world’s sick needing palliative are in India, study finds Inequity in access to essential pain relief and palliative care is one of [...]
Looming crisis in India: opioid access is challenged! We hear with a sense of shock that manufacturing of morphine in the Government Opium and Alkaloid [...]
ICMR and end-of-life care law You may remember that in 2016, government of India put up on its website the draft of an end of [...]
Ashla Rani wins Youth Icon award 2017 “If I had a choice, I would opt to walk again. But it is also true that my [...]
80% of the world’s population in the Global South, let us sit down somewhere and cry a bit quietly. The WHO essential medicines list has [...]
