Local funding shortages threaten primary palliative care services across Kerala

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Primary palliative care services across Kerala are at risk because most local self-government institutions have been short of Plan funds since December 2025, leaving many palliative care nurses unpaid for months, especially in northern districts.
Local bodies also cannot pay ambulance drivers, fuel costs, or buy medicines and consumables like diapers and catheters.
Kerala's 1,141 primary palliative care units, run by local bodies under the Health department, make monthly home visits to bedridden and chronically ill patients.
Medical officers say some nurses are being paid through hospital management committee funds under an existing government order, but this can cover only 50% of such funds and may not sustain unless the Plan fund shortfall is resolved.

Whether the Plan funds impasse for local bodies is resolved and the ₹1,533.55 crore reduction in Plan allocation is addressed
Whether the government reissues or strengthens the order allowing medical officers to use hospital management committee funds for palliative care
Reports of unpaid palliative care nurses and disruption of home visits in grama panchayats

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