India’s Obligation to Ensure Palliative Care
This 102-page report found that many major cancer hospitals in India do not provide patients with morphine, despite the fact that more than 70 percent of their patients are incurable and likely to require pain treatment and palliative care. Health centers offering services to people living with HIV similarly do not have morphine or doctors trained to prescribe it.
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ISBN: 1-56432-555-5
ISBN: 1-56432-555-5
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- Unbearable Pain
- Map 1: States in which Human Rights Watch conducted field research on palliative care
- Overview
- Methodology
- A Brief Introduction to Palliative Care and Pain Treatment
- Palliative Care and Pain Treatment in India
- The Plight of Patients[33]
- The Causes of the Palliative Care and Pain Treatment Gap
- The Human Rights Analysis
- A Way Forward
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix 1: Morphine Licensing System under Unamended State Narcotics Rules
- Annex 1: Model Rule
- Annex 2: Palliative Care Taskforce Recommendation[177]
- Annex 3: Palliative Care Policy Kerala
- Annex 4: Letter from Human Rights Watch to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
- Annex 5: Letter from Human Rights Watch to the Medical Council of India