Dr. M.R. Rajagopal is popularly known as the father of palliative care in the country. A 90-minute-long film based his mission for a pain-free India will be screened at the Tata Institute of ...

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan announced a volunteer registration drive under the Kerala Care Universal Palliative ...

NEW DELHI: As many as 98 out of every 100 patients with stage-4 cancer are unable to get palliative care in India, said a study, noting that this is despite a national programme on palliative care ...

Dr Rajagopal, founder of Pallium India, which provides pain relief and palliative care for free, laments that despite its inclusion in the National Health Policy in 2017, the MBBS curriculum in ...

It is estimated that 56.7 lakh people require palliative care in India per annum, but it is available to only 1% of the needy population, according to palliative care experts. It is also estimated ...

Mumbai: The BMC will soon start India’s first palliative care ward for tuberculosis patients at its hospital in Sewri. Palliative care is considered a necessary component in the global strategy ...

today launched the Singapore-India: Palliative Care Accessibility Core Training (PACT) project. This collaboration to enhance the quality of palliative care services across India marks an ...

Despite existing for nearly four decades, awareness regarding palliative care in India, both among healthcare workers and the general public is low. Also, currently, palliative care is not covered ...