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Kerala’s healthcare model puts palliative care at its core

While an estimated 14% of patients receive palliative care globally, such facilities are available for only less than 4% patients in India. At least one in five suicides in the country is committed by ...
Hindustan Times

Maharashtra looking at Kerala model to strengthen primary health care

Pune: Maharashtra is closely studying the Kerala health model to improve primary healthcare, digital health services, disease surveillance and diagnostics. A state health department delegation led by ...
Business Line

Making the community integral to palliative care

In 1993, when K Suresh Kumar began advocating palliative care in Kerala, few knew about the concept and organised services for patients with life-limiting illnesses were almost non-existent. What ...
Indiatimes

‘End-of-life care is everyone’s responsibility’

A pioneer of Kerala’s globally recognised community-owned palliative care model, Dr K Suresh Kumar recently received the WHO South-East Asia Regional Award 2026 for Public Health Champions. The model ...
The Hindu

LSGD funds shortage may hit palliative care delivery at local level

The Health department is worried that primary care palliative care activities at the grassroots level could get disrupted, putting hundreds of bedridden or chronically ill patients in rural areas in ...