{"id":205231,"date":"2025-10-11T13:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T13:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/205231\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T13:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T13:42:13","slug":"barely-4-of-indians-have-access-to-palliative-care-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/205231\/","title":{"rendered":"Barely 4% of Indians have access to palliative care | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pic-61.jpg\" alt=\"Barely 4% of Indians have access to palliative care\" title=\"Barely 4% of Indians have access to palliative care\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Barely 4% of Indians have access to palliative care On the eve of World Palliative Day, palliative care experts have drawn attention to &#8220;passive violence&#8221; implicit in the dismal access that Indians have to basic pain relief. Forty years after palliative care came to India, it is estimated that barely 4% of citizens have access, reports Rema Nagarajan.Dr MR Rajagopal, founder chairman of Pallium India, a non-governmental organisation working on improving access to palliative care in India, told TOI, &#8220;84% of the world has negligible access to palliative care. Low- and middle-income countries use only 6% of global opioids for pain relief. Guidelines designed for the Global North have failed 84% of the world&#8217;s population. We need a palliative care strategy specifically for the Global South.&#8221;The theme of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, observed on October 11, is &#8220;Achieving the Promise &#8211; Universal Access to Palliative Care&#8221;. By 2030, the world envisioned universal health coverage &#8211; including palliative care -for all.&#8221;It&#8217;s rather obvious we&#8217;re nowhere near that promise. But if we&#8217;re to achieve it at any point in the visible future, we need realistic plans. Low- and middle-income countries use only 6% of global opioids for pain relief. Is this not passive violence by our healthcare systems? Add the active violence of catastrophic health expenditure and the menace of inappropriate end-of-life care that inflicts suffering,&#8221; said Rajagopal, hailed as the father of palliative care in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barely 4% of Indians have access to palliative care On the eve of World Palliative Day, palliative care&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[100513,879,49,48,13571,8799,84,392,1799,7233,8797,10351,25137,100515,100517,8798,100516,100518,100514],"class_list":["post-205231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-access-to-palliative-care","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-global-south","tag-google-news","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-pain-relief","tag-palliative-care","tag-pallium-india","tag-rema-nagarajan","tag-today-news","tag-toi","tag-world-hospice-and-palliative-care-day","tag-world-palliative-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}