79th WHA Individual Statements
The palliative care emergency in the occupied Palestinian territory remains largely invisible to the world and the Assembly.
Patients with serious conditions are dying in preventable suffering. Essential palliative medicines, including morphine, are absent or inaccessible to treat severe pain. What medical personnel remain provide palliative and end-of-life care under conditions that violate every principle of human dignity.
IAHPC urges Member States: To facilitate safe and rational emergency access to essential palliative carer-medicines in the occupied territory; fund training of palliative care integration into all field hospitals and humanitarian health programs in Gaza and the West Bank; and protect medical personnel who provide all health services, including pain relief, psychological, and spiritual support, and symptom management.
Relieving preventable suffering is not a luxury. It is a legal and moral obligation.
Thank you.