By Dr Stephen Connor | Executive Director
New published data on the need for palliative care tells us that the need for palliative care (now more than 73 million each year and growing) is increasing faster than our ability to grow new services. Almost all this growth is in low and middle-income countries. The international palliative care community is shrinking due to lack of funding just when it's needed most. Taks our work with palliative care leaders in Bangladesh or Kenya. Lack of unding is closing services and suddenly people whose health related pain and suffering has been controlled are cut off from futher care, medicines, and treatment. Suppose you were a 60 year old woman with pancreatic cancer. Your severe pain is controlled and suddenly your medicines are cut off and you are in excruciating pain, made all the more painful with the knowldege that you could be free of this suffering...
Please help us advocate for these patients in the global health policy arena. Without palliative care there is no universal health coverage.
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