Newsletter: February 2025 Edition

From the President’s Desk

Dr. Sushma Bhatnagar

Dear Friends,

As I reflect upon my time as the President of the Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPC), I am filled with gratitude and a sense of accomplishment. The journey has been fulfilling, challenging, and eventful, and I am incredibly proud of all that we have achieved together.

In February 2018, when I became the President-Elect during the IAPC’s Annual General Body Meeting (AGBM) at IAPCON Delhi, I embarked upon a journey with a clear vision and concrete goals, unaware of the unprecedented challenges destiny had in store…

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Announcements / Messages from IAPC

IAPC’s Infographic of the month

Calling all poets: Submissions invited for the IAPC’s initiative to celebrate World Poetry Day!

Notice: The IAPC’s AGBM will be held on 1st February, 2025

IAPCON 2025 kicks off to a successful start

Tune in at 2:50 p.m. on 18th February, 2025, for a multilingual edition of ‘Singing for the Stars’

Leverage the IAPC’s Social Media to stay connected!

New vacancies from across the country are now published in the IAPC’s Careers page

Call for Support: Your 2 minutes = Someone’s entire lifetime of Peace, Comfort and Dignity!

‘Saath Saath Helpline’: India’s free palliative care helpline

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Education and Training

Apply now to participate in the ‘IAPC’s Foundation Course in Palliative Care Pharmacy’ on 29th March, 2025

The ‘IAPC’s Foundation Course in Palliative Care for Volunteers’ is now inviting applications

178 clinicians participate in the ‘Part A’ component of the IAPC’s ‘Foundation Course in Essentials of Palliative Care’ in January, 2024

The APM launches the maiden batch of the ‘IAPC’s Certificate Course in Basics of Palliative Care: A Blended Learning Approach’ in January 2025

Apply before 9th February, 2025, to participate in St. Jude’s Global Academy Training Seminar in Palliative Care 2025

Registrations invited for KIPCER’s course on ‘Skills in Neuropalliative Care’ on 8th and 9th March, 2025

Baptist Christian Hospital, Tezpur, trains 57 nurses from Assam and Nagaland in Advance and End of life care on 10th and 11th January, 2025

Over 50 physicians from API’s Salem Chapter sensitised about the need and importance of palliative care on 12th January, 2025

NHM Rajasthan in collaboration with AIIMS Jodhpur trains in-service Doctors, Nurses and Community Health Officers in essentials of home based palliative care

25 Doctors and Nurses participate in the ICMR-AIIMS-BHU-UP palliative care capacity building training program on 29th and 30th December, 2024

IAPC Kerala’s State Chapter Conference was held at Pampady, Kottayam District, on 28th and 29th December, 2024

Sri Sathya Sai Palliative Care Center sensitises 50 women about palliative care at Enumulappali Village, Puttaparthi, on 26th December, 2024

Update from the APM’s lecture series

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Awards and Recognitions

CanSupport in collaboration with IGMCH and support from Cipla Foundation begin home-based palliative care services in Shimla

State Cancer Institute, Guwahati, inaugurated a Pain and Palliative Medicine OPD Unit on 6th January, 2025

An ‘Integrated Cancer Care Clinic’ inaugurated at MVR Cancer Center and Research Institute, Kozhikode, on 15th January, 2025

Bagchi Karunashraya Palliative Care Centre, Bhubaneswar, inaugurated on 21st January, 2025

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Interesting Reads

IAPC’s Exclusive Articles

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Other upcoming events

Registrations invited for the virtual ‘Marie Curie Research into Practice Conference 2025’, 11th – 14th February, 2025

Submit abstracts before 14th February, 2025, for the MD Anderson Center’s ‘28th Supportive and Palliative Care Clinical and Research Symposium’, 19th – 20th September, 2025

Support SVYM’s ‘Swaraanubhuthi’, a musical movement for palliative care, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 15th February, 2025

Submit abstracts before 17th February, 2025, for the ‘Oceanic Palliative Care Conference 2025’, Brisbane, Australia, 10th – 12th September, 2025

Participate in Harvard Medical School’s virtual seminar on ‘Measuring Global Palliative Care Development’ on 26th February, 2025, 6:30 p.m. (IST)

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