Treating serious health related suffering is not just about physical relief to the patient and caregivers, but also about spiritual, social and psychological support. However, there is a lack of palliative care in India, where less than 2% of the population have access to it. Like in most low-income or lower middle-income countries, the need for palliative care is greater in India than in the west simply because disease-specific treatment does not reach patients adequately or early enough.
A recent (October 2017) Lancet Commission on Access to Palliative Care and Pain Relief advises that the focus (along with attention to the disease) should be on serious health related suffering. It is estimated that 61 million people world-wide are in such suffering, and India is home to 10 million of them.
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Through this campaign we are engaging civil society, patients and caregivers to demand urgent and specific action from the policy makers, drug controllers, health providers, treating physicians and palliative care specialists to mitigate serious health-related suffering of the estimated 10 million Indian. Moreover, we aim to collect 100,000 Say No to Pain pledges.
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DescriptionWe plan to run both offline and online pledge campaign. With online campaign anyone can go to our website or make use of saynotopain@cankidsindia.org to pledge their support for the cause.
A similar handle could be created by Pallium India to draw SayNoToPain pledges online. An offline pledge is a photo of someone holding the #SayNoToPain sign on which they’ve written their name on the front and contact details on the back. Whilst the photos are a good visual demonstration of support, it is important that pledges also include the person’s contact details (at least name, email address, location or pin code). |
Venue & DateDate : Friday, 12th October 2018
Time : 3:30 – 8:30 pm Venue : Select City Walk, Saket, New Delhi Organizer : CanKids ...KidsCan and Pallium India Host : CanKids...KidsCan Other Partners : Select City Walk |
What is Palliative care?
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