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Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy Volume 26, 2012 - Issue 2
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NARRATIVES IN PAIN SUFFERING AND RELIEF

They Suffer in Silence

Savita ButolaSavita Butola, MB BS, PGDMCH, is Chief Medical Officer (SG) at the FHQ Border Security Force Hospital, New Delhi, India.Correspondence[email protected]
Pages 167-169 | Published online: 05 Jul 2012
 
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ABSTRACT

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, receives patients from all over India. This narrative describes the suffering of cancer patients who are unable to access pain relief and palliative care at their native places and have to repeatedly travel long distances to get morphine—all because of lack of awareness and availability of palliative care in North India, and the restrictions on availability of morphine due to stringent, outdated narcotic regulations.

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