Lecture 01 : Introductory Dialogue - Week 12

[Music] hi greetings from National Association of pallative care for I and integrative medicine I'm Dr peush Gupta secretary and peo of Cancer Society and Secretary of National Association of pallative care for iush and Integrative Medicine and in this introductory dialogue Dr Gita josi who is director of international institute of distance learning and president of Gujarat chapter of nap cam she has prepared it jointly with me so avability of essential narcotic drugs in India so we are all aware about narcotic drugs and psychotropic Substances Act which is a Draconian law and it restricts the availability of oral morphine and other essential narcotic drugs till it was amended in 2014 so what is the role of Health in sustainable development goals eror if you see goal number three is good health and well-being under sdgs 2030 and we have guidelines how to achieve the various goals and integrate them sometimes death ends suffering and not life so euthanasia becomes important in case if a patient is having severe discomfort so he may ask to die early but it may not be legal in all the countries Advanced directives are there which are known as living Bill and it will help the patient to take decisions when he is unconscious so that whether he should be giving ventilator support or other aggressive treatment when he is dying or not so he can give power of atony to others to take decisions when he is unconscious so we are covering history of opium part one which was prepared by Dr ywan josi and history of opium Again part two would be there prepared by Dr yashan Joshi so these are the various sessions which we are going to cover in this session thank you [Music] [Music] [Music]