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NEWSLETTER
IAPC SECRETARIAT
Official Newsletter of the Indian Association of Palliative Care |
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CURRENT IAPC EC MEMBERS |
Dear Friends,
Greetings from the IAPC Secretariat! This is the first newsletter from the new secretariat.Indian Association of Palliative Care is going through a very exciting phase now. Dr Dinesh Goswamy, my predecessor, had initiated a good number of very ambitious programs. Project Kiran, the new IAPC Course in palliative care, development of a national pool of trainers and establishment of a national information office are some of them.
Project Kiran is the ‘parent project’ facilitating all the other projects mentioned above. It is a joint venture by five organisations – Indian Association of Palliative Care, Helpage India, Institute of Palliative Medicine, Help the Aged (UK) and Help the Hospices (UK). Financial support for the project comes from Helpage India, Help the Aged (UK) and Help the Hospices (UK). We believe that this ambitious venture has the potential to change the face of palliative care in India enormously.
I take this opportunity to place IAPC’s appreciation for the efforts our four partner organisations are making.The first trial run of the Basic Certificate Course in Essentials of Palliative Care has been a great success. It is for the first time that all senior palliative care people could sit together to work on a common project. Support from Dr Max Watson and Dr Libby Sallnow have been very helpful. Lt us hope that the team will continue to deliver great things!
The new team take it up as its responsibility to see that all these projects are run with enthusiasm and vision. We expect whole hearted co operation from all of you.
Warm regards,
Dr Anil Kumar Paleri
Hon. Secretary |
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President: / Prof. Sukdev Nayak /suk_dev@rediffmail.com/ 9338904400
Secretary: / Dr.Anil Kumar Paleri/anilpaleri@gmail.com/ 9447853340
Treasurer: / E. Abdul Majeed/ abdulmajeed.e@gmail.com/ 9745146090
Vice Presi.: /Dr.T. Mohanasundaram/ drmohs.trichy@hotmail.com/ 9345116599
Editor: / Dr. Jacob Alexander/ dralexander_in@yahoo.com |
| Executive Members |
Dr. Aarti Kaul Patel/ aartikaul7@gmail.com / 9752547731
Dr. Mathew Numpeli/ painclinic@sify.com/ 9446444667
Ms. Saroja G/ sarojasen@yahoo.co.in
Ms. Kumari Thankam/ kumarithankam@hotmail.com
Dr. Shyamal Sarkar/ drsarkarsmay@rediffmail.com/ 9831097315
Dr. Anjum Joad/ anjumjoad@hotmail.com/ 9828915257
Dr. Nandini. V/ nandiniv@aims.amrita.edu/ 9446033050
Mr. Gafoor Thaneri/ 9447304316
Dr. Kabindra Bhagabati/ kbhagabati@yahoo.co.uk/ 9864093687
Dr. Abijith K Dam/ ratuldam@yahoo.com/ 9431915282
Past President/ Dr. Firuza D. Patel/patelfd@glide.net.in
Past Secretary/ Dr.Dinesh Chandra Goswami/goswamidcg@yahoo. |
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| IAPC Conference 2009-Delhi |
16th International Conference of Indian Association of Palliative Care 2009 will be held in New Delhi from 13th to 15th February at Jawaharlal Nehru Auditorium, AIIMS, New Delhi. The objective of the conference is to “Update Knowledge in Palliative Care” and the theme of the conference is "Freedom from Pain". For registration and other information please contact Dr. Sushma Bhatnagar ,Organising Secretary, Room No. 242, Unit of Anesthesiology, Dr. BRA Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital ,All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi-110029, India, Tele fax No: +91 11 26588227 ,
Mobile No: +91 9868398300 ,Email: iapcon2009@gmail.com
Website: http://www.iapcon2009.org |
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| Kochipallcon |
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15th International Conference of Indian Association of palliative care, Kochipallcon was held in Kochi , Kerala from 8th to 10th of February 2008. Sixty experts from twenty countries and 470 delegates attended the three day conference.. The Theme of the conference was Quality and Coverage. The focus was on how to give good quality palliative care a wider coverage , so that it is able to access the maximum number of needy patients across the country.
The conference was inaugurated on 8th February 2008 by popular cine artist Mr. Dileep at a grand inaugural function held at the venue. Dr. Sandeep Appunni the winner of Bruce |
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| Dr. Sandeeb Appunni receiving Bruce Davis Gold Medal |
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| Cine Artist Mr. Deleep Inaugurating Kochipallcon |
| Davis Gold medal for the year 2007 received the medal in a function held at the Conference venue. Dr. Sandeep is currently working as a NRHM doctor at Pain and Palliative Care Society, Calicut. |
The conference was organized by the Consortium of Pain and Palliative Care Units in Ernakulam and the organizing secretary was Dr. Biju Raghavan.
A pre conference ‘continuing Medical Education’ program for un initiated medical professional as well as laypersons was held on Thursday, February 7th ,2008. This program used the EPEC-India (Education in Palliative and End –of-Life Care curriculum. |
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| OTHER CONFERENCE |
TPCA Formed |
International Conference on Public Health and Palliative Care
1st International Conference on Public Health and Palliative Care
Is being organized in calicut , kerala ,India on January 16th and 17 th
,2009. This conference will draw together the diverse public health
experiments and practice from around the world to discuss and evaluate the ongoing value and contribution of this form of Palliative care practice. This is an interdisciplinary conference that welcomes all professionals in medicine and health care concerned with palliative care. For registration and other details contact:
Dr. Libby Sallnow pughealthpallcare@googlemail.com
Professor Allan kellehear (a.kellehear@bath.ac.uk)
Dr. Suresh Kumar (drsuresh.kumar@gmail.com)
Website: www.puhealthpallcare.in |
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Trichirappally Palliative Care Association has been formed in a function held on 16th of march at Trichirappally.
Preparations for the 2010 IAPC International conference were started in the meeting
Trichy regional centre organized the certificate distribution function of the IAPC certificate coure in essentials of palliative care at the same venue.
The chief guest was the district collector Mr T. Soundaiah . Dr.Mohanasundaram welcomed and Introduced Palliative care to the gathering. Certficates were handed over to the passed out Candidates. |
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| IAPC Course |
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After the successful completion of IAPC Piolot course, Indian Association of Palliative has decided to condut the IAPC Certificate Course in Essentials of Palliative Care two times a year. The first batch will start in June and the second batch in November this year. The examination will be held in August 2008 and Jaunary 2009 respectively.
The pilot course gained overwhelming response. There were 12 regional centres which conducted the course. The overall pass percentage is approximately 90. In 2008 IAPC Course will be conducted through 21 regional centres in India. |
IAPC Course Announcement |
Applications are invited from doctors and nurses for the Certificate Course in Essentials of Palliative Care.
The next course commences on 01.06.2008
The examination will be in first half of August 2008. |
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| Course Outline: |
The certificate course in Essentials of Palliative care has two components. Part A intended to build the theoretical base. Part A has eight weeks of distance learning and introductory session in the beginning followed by a contact session of 15 hours. There will be an evaluation at the end and the successful candidates will be awarded the Certificates in Essentials of Palliative Care.
Part B of the course is 10 days of optional clinical placement at apalliative care unit convenient to the candidate. The certificate awarded to candidates successfully completing this clinical component of the course will enable them to apply for license to stock and dispense oral morphine under the modified narcotics rules. Some of the centres may charge fee for the clinical placement in the unit.
The course will be delivered by members of the National Faculty in Palliative care through different centres in Inida. The course aims to empower the health care professionals in handling basic palliative care situations. The topic covered include. |
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• Management of Chronic Pain
• Management of other symptoms in advanced diseases
• Communication skills
• Nursing care in patients with advanced disease
• Care of the elderly
• Care of the dying
• Community Participation in Palliative Care |
| Who all can apply? |
Doctors who have successfully completed MBBS/BDS(including those doing their internship) and Nurses with Diploma in Nursing / BSc Nursing.
This course will be a starting point for those interested in the care of the chronically /incurably ill, the bed ridden and the elderly.
But any practicing doctor or nurse irrespective of the speciality are likely to benefit from this training to improve their clinical , communication and organisational skills. |
| Course Fee: |
A heavily subsidised course fee of Rs. 1000( Rupees Thousand Only) will be charged. This will cover the training fee, course material and examination fee. Expenses for travel to the contact sessions, examination and cost of accommodation during the sessions will have to be borne by the candidate. Registered candidates who are not able to write or failed in the examination will get one more chance without paying additional fee. |
| How to apply? |
The completed application form with the Demand Draft and proof of professional qualifications is to be submitted to the regional centre. |
Important dates for 2008 |
| Courses starting on |
Last date for submitting applications |
Evaluation |
| 1st June 2008 |
1st May 2008 |
August 2008 |
| 1st November 2008 |
1st October 2008 |
January 2009 |
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| APPLICATION FORM |
| Certificate Course in Essential of Palliative Care |
| Application Form |
| Course Starting on 1st june 2008/ 1st Nov. 2008 |
| Name in (BLOCK LETTERS) Dr./Mr./Ms/ |
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Permenent Address.............................................................
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Adress for Communication (if different from above):................
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Telephone No : .................................................................
Mobile No : .......................................................................
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Professional Qualificatiion:
(please attachphotocopies ofCertificate:
originals To be produced for Verification at time Contact Sessions
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Details of Course fee Paid:
DD In Favour of Indian Association of Palliative Care Payable at Calicut.
Amount RS. 1000
No:.................................Date:..........................................
Bank:................................................................................
Application Submitted through..............................................
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Signatur of the Candidate. |
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| List of Regional Centres |
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Dr.Minni Arora, E - mail : minniaroral7@yahoo.co.in
Mob : 09815555424.
Institute of Palliative Medicine, Medical College, Calicut-673008, kerala
Contact: Dr. Rajashree, e-mail: drrajisuresh@gmail.com
nio.palliative.india@gmail.com
Tel: 0495- 2354166, 3290956, Mob: 098952 60192.
Community Resource Centre in Palliative care, Palliative Care Clinic Valiyattiparamba Road, Manjeri, Malappuram, Kerala -676121
Contat: Dr. Mathews numpeli, email- painclinic@sify.com
Tel: 0483 2767367, Mob: 094464 44667. |
Institute of Palliative care , District Hospital , Round East, thrissur-680 001
Contact : Dr. Ramla Beebi
Email: ramlabeebi@gmail.com, Mob: 098479 37767.
Department of Palliative Medicine , Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Amrita Lane, Elamakkara Po, Kochi, Kerala-682026
Contact dr. Nandini, email: nandiniv@aims.amrita.edu
Tel: 0484 4003012.
Education Centre Palliative Care Unit, Christian Medical College, vellore-632 004, Tamil Nadu
Contact: Dr. Reena George, email: edupall@gmail.com
Tel: 0416 2283159, Mob: 093451 16599.
Jeevodaya Hospice, 1/272, Kamaraj Road, Mathur , Manali PO, Chennai- 600 068, Tamil Nadu
Contact: Dr. Manjula Krishnaswamy, email: Jeevodaya@vsnl.com
Tel: 044-255 5565, 2555 9671.
Lakshmi Pain and Palliative Care Clinic, Sundaravadanan Nursing Home, 136, Poonamallee High Road, Chennai-600 084 , Tamil Nadu
Contact: Dr. Mallika Tiruvadanan
Email: lakshmipaincare@gmail.com
Tel: 044-2641 1879/2641 2099.
Total Care Charitable Trust, 17/2, Rangarajapuram 1st Street, Sri Nagar Colony, Saidapet, Chennai- 600 015, Tamil Nadu
Contact: Dr. Azhar Hussain, email: totalcare.center@yahoo.com/azpclinic@yahoo.co.in, Tel: 044- 2235 4035 Mob: 09841023540. |
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Bangalore Baptist Hospital, Bellary Road, Hebbal , Bangalore, Karnataka-560 024
Contact: dr. Stanley c Macaden
Email: stancmac@googlemail.com
Tel: 080 2333 0321, Mob: 09448496612.
Dept of Anaesthesiology and Palliative Care , Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Dr. MH Marigowda Road, Bangalore, Karnataka-560029
Contact: Dr. P Saraswathidevi, e-mail: saraswathidevi@sifi.com
Tel: 080 260 94080, 09448070055.
Pain and Palliative Care centre, Kasturba Medical College Hospital , Attavar, Mangalore, Karnataka
Contact: Dr. Ambareesha M
Email: mairpadi@hotmail.com, Mob: 093435 70062.
Guwahathi Pain and Palliative Care Society, Durganath Hemoprova Hazarika Memorial Palliative care Clinic, Bhuban Road, uzan Bazat, Guwahati- 781 001
Contact: Dr. Dinesh Chandra Goswami
e-mail: goswamidcg@yahoo.co.in/painassam@rediffmail.com
Tel: 0361- 260 4943/2331076/ Mob: 09864064070.
Acharya Harihar RCC Pain Clinic, Mangalabag, cuttak, orissa-753 007
Contact: Prof: Sukdev Nayak
Email: suk_dev@rediffmail.com, Mob: 09338904400.
Medical college , Calcutta, Department of Radiotherapy, 88, College street, Calcutta-700 073
Contact: Dr. Shyamal kumar Sarkar
e-mail: drsarkarsmay@rediffmail.com
Tel: 033 24612564, Mob: 09831097315.
Bhagwan Mahaveer Cancer hospital and Research Centre
Jawaharlal Nehru Marg, Jaipur, Rajasthan- 302 017
Contact: Dr: Anjum Joad, e-mail: anjumjoad@hotmail.com
Mob: 98289 15257, Tel: 0141 2700107.
Pain & Palliative Care Department , MNJ Instittute fo Oncology & Regional Cancer Centre , Red Hills , Hyderabad-500 004
Contact : Ms. K lalitha, emai: mnj.palliative@gmail.com
Mob: 09848204857.
Tata Memorial Centre , DR. Ernesty Borges Marg, Parel, Mumbai-400 012
Contact:Dr. M A Muckaden, e-mail: muckaden@vsnl.net
Tel: 022 2417 7148, Mob: 098203 47802. |
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Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital, All India Institute of Mediclal Sciences, New Delhi-110 029
Contact: Dr. Sushma Bhatnagar
Email: shumob@yahoo.com
Mob: 09811326453.
St. John’s Medical College Hospital, OPD No.56, Pain and Palliative Care Unit, Sarjapur Road, Bangalore-34
Contact: Dr. Barathi
e-mail:barathi_in@yahoo.com
Tel: 080 22065189, Mob: 9845891979. |
| Palliative Care Unit for
Upgradation As Training Centres |
The committee for selecting the three Palliative care centres for upgradation has selected the following three centres for the year 2007-2008
- Palliative Care Unit, PGIMER, Chandigarh
- DNHP Memorial Palliative Care Clinic, Guwahati
- Jeevodaya Hospice , Chennai
These centres will be awarded Rs. 1,00,000 for 2007-2008 for this purpose
As a recognized centre in Palliative Care these centres are required to : |
- Conduct a regional workshop for training the trainers in palliative care before May 2008.
- Coduct training programs of IAPC on a regular basis
- Establish basic infrastructure /human resource for running regular training programs at these centres
In the year 2008 -2009 IAPC proposes to upgrade five more palliative care units as recognised training centres. Interested centres may apply to the National Information Officer, IAPC Secretariat, Institute of Palliative Medicine, Medical College Po, Calicut, Kerala with details of the existing facilities. |
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PROCEEDINGS OF IAPC ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON09.02.2008 AT SREE GOKULAM CONVENTION CENTRE, KOCHI |
| President’s opening remarks |
| President welcomed the members to the Kockipallcon in
The 14ih year formation of IAPC. He congratulated
Dr.Biju Raghavan, Organizing Secretary for excellent
Conduct of the conference, particularly the punctuality in scientific sessions and other activities. |
| Minutes of Last AGM |
| Minutes of last AGM presented by Secretary and was passed with the new members need to pay Rs.1000/- only as one time payment for getting the journal. |
| Secretary's Report |
Report of the activities of the current year was presented by secretary. It was passed by the house. (proposed by Dr. Anil, Seconded by Dr.Saraswathi). |
| Audited Account & Report by Treasurer |
Report by treasurer & audited account presented. (proposed by Dr.Mathews ,Seconded by Dr. Linge Gowda,) |
| EC Proceeding September,2007,Bhubaneswar |
Secretary presented the September,2007EC proceedings which has passed.(proposed by Dr.Linge Gowda, seconded by Dr.T. Mohanasundaram. |
| Registration of Dr. Malati Tiwari |
| House accepted the resignation of Dr. Malati Tiwari. |
| Election |
following nominationwere received & declared elected uncontested: |
Vice President: Dr. Mohanasundaram, Trichy
Treasur : Mr. E Abdul Majeed, Manjeri
EC Members : Dr. Nandini V Kochi.
Dr. AK Dam, Bokaro
Dr. Kabindra Bhagabati, Guwahati
Mr.Gafoor Thaneri, Wayanad |
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House of nominated EC member (following registration of DR. malati Tiwari)
Dr. Anjum Joad from jaipur proposed by Dr. Suresh Kumar seconded by Dr. Firuza Patel) |
| 2010 IAPC Conference |
It was noted that Dr. kaul, the organizing secretary for Bhopal conference (2010) has shifted to Delhiand has expressed her inability to conduct 2010 Conference at Bhopal. It was discussed at length. Dr.Mohanasundaram volunteered to conduct it at trichy,Tamilnadu. This is the second time an IAPC conference has been changed at the last minute. It was a great concern at the new organizing secretary has less than the normal time to organized the IAPC Conference at Trichy. It was felt that some sort of caution money deposit should be introduced for bidding the IAPC Conference. Once some member bids for an IAPC conference, they must stand committed till the end of conference, to avoid last minute confusion. |
Mr. Noordeen complained about bon receipt of newsletter from secretariate. He was advised to change his contact address from overseas to hometown
the house approved formation of jarkhand state branch as well as Brockan city Branched. Ghosh and Dr. Dam are the respective contact persons
House endorsed receipt of request for holding 2012 IAPC conference in Mangalore from Dr.pankaj, however,is to be settled later
The secretariat will be shifted to IPM calicut with Dr. Anil paler taking over IAPC Secretaryship from now onward. Any enquiries mad to Dr. Anilkumar paleri ( anilpaleri@gmail.com)
The meeting ended with thanks to the chair. |
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| EPEC INDIA WORKSHOP (APRIL 2008) |
On April 26- 27 there will be another EPEC- India workshop at – India workshop at manipal university in India . It will be open to all physicians and other health care professionals. The focus will be teaching the EPCE India curriculum in small group interactive sessions and help medical personnel to better teach and implement palliative care in to their practices and institutions.faculty from India and the USA will be participating in the workshop. |
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| Project Kiran Launched |
Project Kiran, A joint venture of the Indian association of Palliative care , Institute of Palliative Medicine and HelpAge India has been officially launched in a function held at Manjeri in connection with 2nd international conference on community participation in palliative Care. The project is being implemented in India with financial and Collaborative assistance from two UK based Charities – Help the Aged and Help the Hospices.The financial support of the project comes from Help Age India, Help the aged (UK) . |
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| Launching Project Kiran |
| The Official Launching of the project was inaugurated by Dr. Cecelia Sepelveda Chief of Cancer Division WHO. Mr. David prail, Co-Chair of Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance and CEO of Help the Hospices (U.K) and Mr. Paul Cann, Help the aged (UK) ,Mr. Avenash Datta and Dr. George Oommen |
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Dr:Cicelia Sepuldeva, Chief of cancer division who addressing gathering after the official launching the Project Kiran |
(Help age India), Prof. Sukdev Nayak and Dinesh Chandra Goswami (Indian Association of Palliative Care) and Dr. Suresh Kumar (Institute of Palliative Medicine), Participated in the Ceremony.
The duration of the project is three and a half years. “Bringing palliative care to the door steps of those in need” is the objective of this project. The project envisages providing special care and support to elder people. There are may issues in the care of the elderly
Which fall in to the physical, emotional, social and spiritual domains of their lives, where applying principles of palliative care can help solve them.
In the project IAPC is responsible for upgrading training centres in palliative care, help developing training programmes, advocacy activities, help setting up information centre in palliative care etc. |
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| International workshop in Community Participation |
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Inaugural function of the international work shop on community participation |
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The second international workshop on Community participation was held on February 5th and 6th,2008 at Manjeri in Malappuram district. This workshop concentrated on the need, methods, quality assurance and evaluation of homecare programmes from the point of view of the developing world.
The conference was officially inaugurated by Mr. David Prail, Co-Chair, world wide Palliative Care Alliance and Chief Executive Help the Hospices . The ceremony well attended by politicians, government officials and well-wishers was followed by impressive cultural programs.
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| National Information Officer (NIO) For Palliative Care |
A National Information Office has been conceptualized as a ‘data bank for information related to Palliative Care in India’. This enables to access any data on Palliative care faster and more effortlessly. The National Information Office of IAPC is located at the Institute of Palliative Medicine , Calicut. The current National information officer in Palliative Care (India) is Ms.Nisha. |
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For more information, Contact:Ms. Nisha
National Information Officer in Palliative Care (India)
Institute of Palliative Medicine ( IPM)
Medical College, Calicut 673008
Tele:(+91-495) 2351452/2354166/3290956
Mob:+91-94466-93898
E-mail: nio.palliative.india@gmail.com
www.palliativecare.in |
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The IAPC members are requested to send news and events regarding palliative care activities for publishing in the news letter to the following address National Information Officer |
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