31 Aug 2025

From Paper to Patients: Why India must put Palliative Care Policies into Practice

From Paper to Patients: Why India must put Palliative Care Policies into Practice – Ms. Smriti Rana, Thiruvananthapuram Only 4% of India’s population has access to palliative care. Many of the right ideas have already been written into policies: the National Programme for Palliative Care (NPPC, 2012), the National Health Policy (2017) that recognizes palliative…

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IAPC position statement on end of life care
11 Aug 2014

IAPC calls for national policy to attain clinical excellence in end of life care

  In its consensus position statement just published in the September-December 2014 issue of the Indian Journal of Palliative Care, the Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPC) has asserted that access to palliative care and end of life care is a human right and that all patients are entitled to a dignified death. It has…

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