Pallium India Newsletter: World Cancer Day Special
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PRESS RELEASE – THE MORPHINE MANIFESTO – FEBRUARY 3, 2012
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KERALA, INDIA / WISCONSIN, USA — Millions of people all over the world
are in needless pain because simple inexpensive medication is denied to them.
In conjunction with WORLD CANCER DAY 2012 (4 February 2012), Pallium
India, the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC),
and the Pain & Policy Studies Group / WHO Collaborating Center at the
University of Wisconsin, along with 60 other organizations around the
world, have released a Morphine Manifesto [http://palliumindia.org/manifesto] .
[http://palliumindia.org/manifesto]
Signed by leading organizations and foundations from around the world,
including cancer, pain management, and hospice & palliative care organizations,
this Manifesto [http://palliumindia.org/manifesto] calls for an end to the
unethical practice of promoting access to expensive opioid analgesics without
also making available low cost immediate release oral morphine.
Furthermore, it calls upon governments, health care institutions, and
the pharmaceutical industry to assure the accessibility of immediate release
morphine to patients in need at a cost that the individual and community can
afford.
Dr. M.R. Rajagopal, Chairman of Pallium India, and the driving force
behind the creation of the Morphine Manifesto
[http://palliumindia.org/manifesto] , states: _“Prolonged unrelieved pain
destroys the mind; destroys the body; destroys families. Inexpensive and
effective immediate release morphine can relieve most of such pain. We cannot
call ourselves a cultured or ethical society if we deprive this relief to those
in pain; or worse yet, benefit financially from this suffering by forcing
expensive, unaffordable alternatives on them.”_
Dr. Jim Cleary, Director of the University of Wisconsin Pain & Policy
Studies Group, asserts: _“The Institute of Medicine’s recent statement that
‘effective pain management is a moral imperative, a professional
responsibility, and the duty of people in the healing professions’ applies to
the entire world. Access to low-cost immediate release oral morphine would be a
great start in bringing effective pain management to the 83% of the world’s
population with low or non-existent access to opioid analgesics.”_
Ms. Liliana De Lima, Executive Director of the IAHPC remarks: _“We hope
that the manifesto will motivate governments to eliminate excessive and
unnecessary regulatory requirements which affect access to opioids and to work
with the pharmaceutical industry to facilitate the production and distribution
of immediate release oral morphine to all patients in need.”_
Dr. Eric Krakauer of Harvard Medical School, member of the drafting
team, adds: _“Access to pain relief is a human right. Making immediate release
oral morphine accessible by all is a moral imperative.”_
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