Open AccessPalliative care: Time for action
Author(s) -
Javaid Ahmad Mir,
Onaisa Aalia Mushtaq,
Bushra Mushtaq
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
ip journal of paediatrics and nursing science/ip journal of paediatrics and nursing science (print)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2582-4031
pISSN - 2582-4023
DOI - 10.18231/j.ijpns.2022.001
Subject(s) - palliative care , action (physics) , quality of life (healthcare) , medicine , nursing , psychology , quantum mechanics , physics
Palliative care improves the life quality of client and also for their families who are suffering with challenges associated with life-threatening illness, whether physical, psychological, social or spiritual. The quality of caregiver’s life also improves. According to WHO each year, an estimated 40 million people are in need of palliative care; 78% of them people live in low- and middle-income countries. Worldwide, only about 14% of people who need palliative care currently receive it. Unnecessarily restrictive regulations for morphine and other essential controlled palliative medicines deny access to adequate palliative care.