Rajagopal co-founded Pallium India, Palliative care was only sparsely available in the rest of India, limited primarily to a few metropolitan areas. Rajagopal said. “In the next ten years, growth was phenomenal. Palliative care became a known entity throughout Kerala, and became quite popular too.” Palliative Care Across India “We started by providing palliative care in the northern seven districts of Kerala,” Dr. The Society’s creation of a palliative-care delivery system tailored to the Indian cultural and social background was recognized by the World Health Organization and designated a WHO demonstration project in 1995. He was Professor and Head of Anesthesiology in Calicut Medical College in 1993 when he co-founded the Pain and Palliative Care Society. He was inspired by the outstanding work of Gilly Burn, a British nurse who traveled the length and breadth of India, introducing palliative care, finding pioneers, and getting them trained and empowering them for palliative care. Rajagopal started looking around for ways to better treat all of this ‘other’ suffering. I started listening to them and learning from their experiences, and I eventually discovered Palliative Care.” Growth of Palliative Care in Kerala “Those people taught me that they are not made of just nerves and pain, they have other elements of suffering, they have other emotions. Fiction Column: Tiny Tales From the HeartĮx-Tata Chairman Cyrus Mistry (54) Dies In Road Accidentĭr.
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