A Joint Declaration and Statement of Commitment for the recognition of palliative care and pain treatment as Human Rights
Possible Talking Points for your use: You may use the following statement, or modify it as you see fit when you notify your contacts. Of course, we hope you will develop your own message. Thank you!
Dear all:
You may already be aware of a project we are currently working on: We are collecting signatures for the recognition of palliative care and pain treatment as human rights.
Every week more than one million people die with chronic and progressive conditions who do not receive any palliative care and pain treatment. In spite of the advances, many doctors, insurance programs, social security systems and national health policies do not cover or recognize palliative care as a component of care. The vast majority of people die abandoned by the system without ever receiving palliative care. Developing countries, where about 80 percent of the population lives, registers only about 6% of the total worldwide consumption of morphine, which indicates a huge disparity in access to pain treatment.
Several organizations have joined together and developed a Joint Declaration and Statement of Commitment for the recognition of palliative care and pain treatment as Human Rights. I invite you to sign this Declaration to help us in this effort. The more signatures we are able to collect, the greater chance that we are able to bring this to the attention of the United Nations bodies and governments.
You can read the Declaration in:
http://www.hospicecare.com/resources/pain_pallcare_hr/docs/jdsc.pdf
To sign the Declaration online, please click on
http://www.hospicecare.com/cgi-script/csFormbuilder/forms/declaration.htm
On behalf of all the patients who suffer needlessly, I thank you in advance for your support. If you have also signed, thank you very much!
We would also appreciate it if you could forward this to your contacts, friends and family to invite them to sign.
Best regards,
Also available for your use is the following:
A 5 minute interview on Radio 4 on Pain Relief as a Human Right with Sir Michael Bond from Glasgow University and Dr Andrew Suleh from the Medical Association of Kenya. You can listen to the program at this link. The interview is #0845
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7571000/7571909.stm
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