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WORLD HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE DAY

#WORLD_HOSPICE_AND_PALLIATIVE_CARE_DAY_9thOctober_2021#
   Pallium India 
   KOSISH-the hospice 
   EIPC
   
          This year's theme is "Leave No One Behind "-- equity access to palliative care. Everyone should be accessible to healthcare system with the aid of Palliative Care irrespective of caste, creed, religion, economic status. Examples of inequities in Palliative Care access are the following categories of people-- Older Persons, Racial minorities, Homeless people, Prisoners, People with disability, LGBTQ community, Sex workers, Migratory working class, Children.
     88% of people who need Palliative care are deprived of.
     Still palliative care is not fully integrated.
    Palliative care is rarely adequately financed by the government.
      In India, only 2% of the total patients receive palliative care.
      So to mitigate suffering providing comfort to the patients with non-communicable diseases and for the elderly people in the family with the aging ailments feeling with pain of lonliness, Palliative Care is the need of the hour specially in our country. 
      Let us take a pledge together with dedication, compassion, empathy and love to contribute in any way to solution. We need: Activism, Advocacy, Education, Media work, Organising, Planning, New partnership, and Voices. Though Hospice and Palliative Care a new phenomenon approach, provide comfort to have better quality of life and dignified peaceful death. Lately, hospice for elderly home has been coming into the scene of the society of nucleated family. 
        LIVE WELL DIE BETTER 
  This is not the only DAY to be celebrated, We must honour the day throughout the year to eradicate the discrimination, reduce the inequalities and vulnerabilities that leave human being behind. We can do if we have INTENTION to do good to the persons in need and herein lies the efficacy of Hospice and Palliative Care leading people to live well and die a good death.
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