Epilogue: Reflections from Stakeholders of a Facilitated Community Partnership Developed to Provide Palliative Care to a Vulnerable Population in Kerala.

Introduction: In mid-March 2020, the Kerala government implemented additional preventive measures to the steps already taken to reduce the transmission of COVID-19. Strategies were taken by a non-governmental palliative care organisation (Pallium India) with Coastal Students Cultural Forum - a coastal area-based collective of young educated people in the coastal region to address the medical needs of people living in this community. The facilitated partnership lasted 6 months (July-December 2020) and addressed the palliative care needs of the community in the selected coastal regions during the first wave of the pandemic.

Situational analysis of the quality of palliative care services across India: a cross-sectional survey.

Objective: Palliative care services in India were established in the 1980s but there is no detailed up-to-date knowledge about the quality-of-service provision nationally. We aim to describe the current quality of palliative care provision in India, as measured against nationally adopted standards.

Method: A digital survey adapted from the Indian Association of Palliative Care Standards Audit Tool was administered to 250 palliative care centres.

Response to COVID-19 Crisis with Facilitated Community Partnership among a Vulnerable Population in Kerala, India - A Short Report.

The unexpected lockdown announced by the Government of India in March 2020 in response to the pandemic left the coastal community in Kerala deprived of not only essential amenities but also healthcare. Some poverty-ridden, over-crowded coastal regions had been declared as critical containment zones with severe restriction of movement, adding to their vulnerability. People with serious health-related suffering (SHS) in this community required urgent relief.

Health-Related Suffering and Palliative Care in Breast Cancer.

Purpose Of Review: Breast cancer continues to be the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women and the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. By the suffering that it causes in various domains of life, breast cancer seriously impacts the quality of life of affected individuals and causes a major burden of suffering in the community. The objectives of the review were to understand the health-related suffering in patients with breast cancer and to identify the scope of palliative care in improving the quality of life of patients with breast cancer.

Improving Access and Quality of Palliative Care in Kerala: A Cross-sectional Study of Providers in Routine Practice.

Background: Expanding access and improving quality of palliative care in low-middle income countries is a pressing priority.

Objective: The objective of the study was to describe structure and processes of care across government (GO) and non-GO (NGO) palliative care providers (PCPs) in Kerala, India.

Design: This was a cross-sectional telephone survey.