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IAPCON 2011
The 18th International Conference of Indian Association of Palliative Care will be held from February 11th to 13th at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow. The theme of the Conference is “Networking in Palliative care”.
For Registration and other details log on to www.iapcon2011.com or contact
Mr. Piyush Gupta
Organising Secretary IAPCON 2011&
Principal Executive Officer, Cancer Aid Society
Email: piyushgupta@canceraidsocietyindia.org/iapcon2011@canceraidsocietyindia.org
Phone: 91-522-2259157, 4043686, 3255278
Fax: 91-522-2259239
IAPCON 2010
The 17th International Conference of Indian Association of Palliative care concluded at Tiruchirappalli with the “Declaration on Care of the elderly”
 More than 450 delegates from all over the globe participated in the three day conference. The focus of the conference was “the Care of the Elderly”
The conference was inaugurated by Dr. Mayil Vahana Nataragan , the Vice-Chancellor of Tamil Nadu Dr. M. G. R. Medical University on 12th February. The Vice-Chancellor said that a one-year Fellowship in Palliative Care would be introduced soon .
A special Postal Cover in Commemoration of the conference was released in a function held as part of the conference. S P Rajalingam , Post Master General, Central Region , Trichi released the postal cover which was received by David Prail , Chief Executive of Help the Hospices and Chairman of World wide Palliative Care Network, UK.
The Pre Conference CME was inaugurated by Dr. KalaiSelvi, The Dean of Chennai Medical College, Trcihy and Dr.T.Mohanasundaram the organizing secretary welcomed the gatherings. Mr.David Prail Spoke about the Global Propect of Pallaitive care. Dr.Suresh Reddy of M.Anderson University , Houstan USA Chaired the CME programme.
Dr.M.R.Rajagopal and his team lead the CME for the Doctors, Mrs.Gilly Burn and Team for the Nurses, and Dr.Rajashree and team for the Social workers and Volunteers.
World Hospice and Palliative Care Day
The theme for World Day 2010, which will take place on 9th October, is "Sharing the care".
This Day is for people to engage in events and activities to raise awareness and funds to support the development of hospice and palliative care.
The theme for this year "Sharing the Care" will highlight the role of individuals such as community members, family members and health professionals as well as different organisations such as governments, funders, health care centres, INGOs and hospices.
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With the theme Voices for the Hospices, this year, the World Hospice and Palliative care day was celebrated in more than seventy countries around the world on October 10th 2009.More than 1000 events were held globally to raise awareness and funds for local Hospices and Palliative Care Services.
A new you tube channel high lightening hospice and palliative care around the world has been launched. To add films to this channel, email worldday@helpthehospices.org.uk. |
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World Hospice and Palliative Care Day will take place next year on 9th October. |
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Report from India
World day has been celebrated all over India with different programmes like musical events, Hospice tour, exhibitions workshops etc. The celebrations organised from Jammu& Kashmir to Kerala were attractive and awareness generating. |
“Hospice Tour India: a report on palliative care awareness in our country
Dr.A.K.Dam, Kosish-the hospice |
Discovering your voice” was the theme chose for the World Hospice & Palliative care day this year…this gave us the inspiration to undertake a Herculean task; to assess the peoples awareness of palliative care & its importance in our society on the basis of random interviews taken from a broad cross section of people from various castes, creeds, socio-economic backgrounds, cultural backgrounds; in short representing the true India. This was not planned as a formal “study” with statistical analysis of data, but rather based on a casual tour involving less travelled parts of India, in fact involving parts of India which even most Indians have not travelled to.
Our desperate pleas of funding for the program fell on deaf ears from all possible sources including large palliative care organizations. In fact we were discouraged from many areas. However my morale was boosted by a small group of well wishers.
My nominated partner had to drop out at the last moment and my volunteer Mr.Surjit Singh pitched in and agreed to accompany me for the tour. I had to pool in my personal savings for the tour. It was a blessing in disguise when our local Maruti Suzuki dealer, Mr.Gopal Lodha, agreed to sponsor the vehicle, a Maruti A-Star. The cost of the fuel was however borne by us. Being financially constrained, we could not afford a driver. So I decided to drive. Also, our original plan to cover most parts of India had to be pruned due to lack of funding. So we decided to travel to those parts of India where palliative care had yet to lay its footprints. We covered Jharkhand, Orissa, Chattisgarh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.Download pdf
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