IAPC Newsletter: September 2024

From the President’s Desk

Hello Friends,

I am pleased to share that the latest edition of the Indian Journal of Palliative Care (July-September 2024) featuring a variety of engaging content such as review articles, original research, a case report, and short communications, are now available online. Please click here to read this current issue. Congratulations to the editorial team for delivering yet another excellent edition for us to enjoy!

Through the IAPC’s well accepted initiative, the IAPC’s infographics for the month, we present to you another interesting infographic for September 2024, which focuses on ‘Ethics in Palliative Care’. Over time, these infographics have been recognized as an effective tool to raise awareness about palliative care among both the professionals and the general public. I encourage you to make full use of this resource…

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Announcements / Messages from IAPC

IAPC’s Infographic of the month

The IAPC’s ‘A photo journey – Looking through the prism of Palliative Care’ is now published

IAPCON 2025: Register for the conference and Interesting Pre-conference workshops! Abstracts invited for presentation!

The WHPCD’s digital toolkit for 2024 is now available!

The IJPC’s July – September 2024 edition is now online

Tune in at 2:50 p.m. on 18^th September, 2024, 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

Last chance to apply for the IAPC’s ‘Certificate Course in Palliative Care Pharmacy’

Apply before 6^th September, 2024, to participate in the APM’s course on ‘Advance Nursing Skills in Palliative Care’

Applications invited for the ‘Global Fellowship Program in Palliative Medicine’ offered by TIPS (Pallium India)

Registrations invited for ‘The Art of Communication’ workshop by Cancer Institute (WIA) Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on 6^th October, 2024

DNipCare in association with TNAI (Telangana Chapter) and ECHO India inaugurated the ‘DNipCare Academic Series on Palliative Care for Nursing Students’ on 3^rd August, 2024

18 healthcare professionals participated in KIPCER’s ‘Skills in Neuropalliative Care’ course on 3^rd and 4^th August, 2024

SAIMS College of Nursing, Indore, conducted a 3-day module on Palliative Care for second year nursing students, between 7^th and 9^th August, 2024

TMC Mumbai conducted their 2^nd annual CEPaC successfully on 10^th and 11^th August, 2024

The Kozhikode Initiative in Palliative Care sensitises 44 palliative care nurses in the ‘Basics of Home-based Palliative Care’ on 11^th August, 2024

IAPC Assam Chapter, the BBCI and ECHO India, jointly launch a Webinar Series in Palliative Care from 16^th August, 2024

The 6^th CME of the Delhi State Chapter of the IAPC conducted in association with the ONAI Delhi Chapter, at Delhi, on 18^th August, 2024

Department of Community Medicine, MMCRI, and SVYM, successfully conducted a CME on ‘Integrated and Comprehensive Palliative Care: Making it happen’ on 22^nd August, 2024

45 individuals of WB CHAI sensitised about palliative care and its benefits on 24^th and 25^th August, 2024

30 Nurses at Manipal Hospital Whitefield, Bengaluru, sensitised in the basics of palliative care on 29^th July, 2024

75 Nurses from Aster CMI, and Aster Whitefield and RV, Bengaluru, participate in the EPEC course for Nurses in July 2024

Sparsh Hospice, Hyderabad, pilots a model ‘CAS initiative’ across 4 schools between March and June 2024

Update from APM’s lecture series

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Awards and Recognitions

Dr Sushma Bhatnagar recognised as a luminary in pain science by the IASP on 7^th August, 2024

Dr Harjot Singh bestowed with the ‘IMA Amritsar’s Annual Award for Leadership’ on 10^th August, 2024

The Karnataka Press Club felicitates Dr Yaduraj MK with the ‘Vaidya Sevaa Ratna Award’ on 27^th July, 2024

Ruby Hall Clinic, Pune, inaugurates a ‘Department of Palliative Medicine’ on 4^th August, 2024

AIIMS Jammu begins offering Palliative Care OP services from 12^th August, 2024

Pain and Palliative Care OPD inaugurated at Military Hospital, Pangode, Kerala, on 13^th August, 2024

SVYM and Sevakshetra Hospital collaborate to offer institutional palliative care services from 16^th August, 2024

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Interesting Reads

IAPC’s Exclusive Articles

• ‘From Pain to Possibility: The Role of Physiotherapy in Palliative Care’, by Mr Jarapla Srinivas Nayak, Bengaluru, Karnataka in acknowledgement of World Physical Therapy Day (8^th September)
• ‘A Pharmacist – A critical member of the palliative care team’, by Mr Fazle Noor Biswas, Bangladesh, in observance of World Pharmacists Day (25^th September)
• ‘Caring for the Caregivers’, by Ms Joshna Chatada, Mangalagiri, Andhra Pradesh

Other Compelling reads

• ‘The Silence Doctors Are Keeping About Millennial Deaths’, a republication from The Atlantic
• ‘Enhancing Palliative Care Accessibility: Elevating the Quality of Life – Sumit Banik’, a republication from ehospice

Other upcoming events

Register to participate in the EAPC’s webinar ‘Assessment of pain syndromes in people with cancer: cancer-related pain and beyond’, 3^rd September, 2024

Register before 27^th September, 2024, to avail the early bird registration for the ‘Hospice New Zealand Palliative Care Conference’ Wellington, New Zealand, 4^th and 5^th November, 2024

Applications invited for a workshop on ‘Clinical Ethics in Palliative Care’, 28^th and 29^th September, 2024, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Abstracts invited for the ‘19^th World Congress of the EAPC’, Helsinki, Finland, 29^th – 31^st May, 2025

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