Emeritus from Pallium India, Mr. Rajagopal and its CEO Binod Hariharan wrote to the World Health Organization (WHO) and other international palliative care agencies – including a global palliative care strategy and the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care.
On the occasion of World Hospice and Palliative Care 11 October, Saturday, Low and Medium -Receive Countries, including India, they are not near the target that was assumed in 2030 that universal health coverage, including palliative care, emphasizes.
Palliative care integration into health systems is the core of universal health coverage and it is important that palliative care is included in the continuum of care at all levels of the health system. Still, it wasn’t.
“Achieving a promise – a universal approach to palliative care” is the topic of 2025 World Hospice and Palliative Care. Forty years after Palliative Care has come to India, less than 4% of our citizens have access to even basic pain relief, forget about other aspects of palliative care, ”emphasizes Dr. Rajagopal
This rejection of pain relief is passive violence caused by people by the health system, he says. This, unlike the suffering of people, is due to the increase in catastrophic health spending and inappropriate care for the end of life that is caused by people who are not happening about.
“About 93.5% of all palliative care research happens in the countries of global north or in high -income countries. We don’t even know the elements of suffering in low and medium income countries. What exactly are the people who last?
All international efforts, instructions and recommendations formulated for palliative care are focused on countries with high income, while it is just scattered local initiatives in poor countries. These instructions and recommendations are of no importance for nations that do not have the capacity of the machinery or the health system to carry out these directives.
84% of the world’s population failed for global north. “That is why we refer to the WHO and other international palliative care agencies that a separate palliative care strategy will be formulated for global south, which is responsible for the reality of low and medium -income countries,” says Dr. Rajagopal
The recent publication of the WHO, left in pain, demanded regional production and supply chains for opioids. Something should be done about this, and international agencies should be able to help in the development of regional strategies for effective palliative care and facilitate its implementation, Pallium india appealed.
Published – October 10, 2025 09:04
