Opioid dispensing patterns from a tertiary care cancer hospital during the nationwide lockdown in COVID-19 pandemic

Conclusion: Despite the lockdown, the palliative care team at Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital has continued to provide adequate pain relief to patients that could manage to reach the center. Policy-makers need to be cognizant of the pain relief needs of cancer patients in times when accessing hospitals is becoming increasingly difficult. Cancer-related pain and mortality could well be the next pandemic once the current COVID-19 begins to reduce.

Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care - June 29, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Ruparna Khurana Mohit Varshney Seema Mishra Nishkarsh Gupta Rakesh Garg Sachidanandjee Bharti Vinod Kumar Sushma Bhatnagar Source Type: research