PRPCS organizes a Pediatric Bereavement Memorial Support Group The Pain Relief and Palliative Care Society (PRPCS) had organized a poignant reflection of a profound, yet a transformative and encouraging event in life, by organizing a Pediatric Bereavement Memorial Support Group event on Tuesday, 22nd October, 2024, at Hyderabad. The event was envisioned to ensure that…
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Individual grief manifests as love for the community – Ms. Sailaja Tripathy, Bhubaneswar Deepesh’s association with Amrit Dhara Palliative Care Trust (ADPCT) was made possible by Ms Namrata Rath (Managing Trustee and Secretary, ADPCT), who was a source of support during his cancer treatment at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. Deepesh was a 25-year-old gentleman who was…
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There is an end to cure, There is no end to care! – Ms Vandana Mahajan, New Delhi I read somewhere ‘Children with cancer, are like candles in the wind, who accept the possibility that they are in danger of being extinguished by a gust of wind from nowhere and yet they flicker and dance…
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Spreading the essence of empathy: an NGO experience in Patient Navigation – Dr. Anupama Mukherjee, Goa On a rainy evening, during a routine visit to the Medical Oncology ward at the Goa Medical College and Hospital, Goa, we chanced upon a weak yet playful boy curled up at his bed by the window-side. The nurses…
Read MoreHope in Life with HIV – Dr. Rajni Herman, New Delhi Neeta (name changed) and her husband are HIV positive patients. It was during the World Aids Day commemoration event on 1st December, 2021, at Shalom, that Neeta shared her life journey. Neeta’s and her husband’s word fell apart in 2010, when they were diagnosed…
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