Last week the Lancet Commissions published their report on Palliative Care and Pain Relief.
The report showed that the Essential Package of palliative care and pain management interventions is affordable in low-resource countries, yet this Essential Package is barely available in these settings.
Here's what the report said:
"The fact that access to such an inexpensive, essential, and effective intervention is denied to most patients in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) and in particular to poor people—including many poor or otherwise vulnerable people in high-income countries—is a medical, public health, and moral failing and a travesty of justice."
"Unlike so many other priorities in global health, affordability is not the greatest barrier to access, and equity-enhancing, efficiency-oriented, cost-saving interventions exist. "
Implementing this Essential Package offers a huge opportunity improve the lives of poor people, at a modest cost. We must start to implement this, especially in Bangladesh, in slums (where we have already started) and in the refugee camps and settlements where the Rohingya have arrived recently.
Here is the essential package and the full report http://thelancet.com/commissions/palliative-care
The report showed that the Essential Package of palliative care and pain management interventions is affordable in low-resource countries, yet this Essential Package is barely available in these settings.
Here's what the report said:
"The fact that access to such an inexpensive, essential, and effective intervention is denied to most patients in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) and in particular to poor people—including many poor or otherwise vulnerable people in high-income countries—is a medical, public health, and moral failing and a travesty of justice."
"Unlike so many other priorities in global health, affordability is not the greatest barrier to access, and equity-enhancing, efficiency-oriented, cost-saving interventions exist. "
Implementing this Essential Package offers a huge opportunity improve the lives of poor people, at a modest cost. We must start to implement this, especially in Bangladesh, in slums (where we have already started) and in the refugee camps and settlements where the Rohingya have arrived recently.
Here is the essential package and the full report http://thelancet.com/commissions/palliative-care
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