Announcements / Messages from IAPC

The World Hospice and Palliative Care Day’s Theme for 2022 has been announced!

The Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA) has announced that the theme for this year’s World Hospice and Palliative Care Day (WHPCD) is “Healing Hearts and Communities.”

This year’s WHPCD will be celebrated on 8th October 2022. 

World Hospice and Palliative Care Day is an annual unified day of action to celebrate and support hospice and palliative care around the world. 

WHPCA shares, “The last couple of years have come with many ups and downs. Millions of people have experienced loss in different areas of life and one common thing is the experience of grief and loss globally because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Palliative care is the only health care provider that routinely provides bereavement support to patients and families. The world came together to fight and to try to end the pandemic. It is with that same spirit that we unite and support each other in times of grief. Please join the world on that day (WHPCD) as we learn from each other and share our experiences with grief and loss and how to find healing”.

They also share that this year’s WHPCD toolkit will be released shortly. 

IAPCON 2023: Last chance to submit your expression of interest to conduct pre-conference workshops

The organisers of IAPCON 2023, invites you to grab your last chance to submit an expression of interest to conduct pre-conference workshops at IAPCON 2023. Those interested may please email (email address shared below) the Pre-conference Subcommittee Chair by Tuesday, 31st May, 2022, with the below details:

  • Theme of the Workshop
  • Short Justification for the choice of topic (100 words)
  • Target Audience
  • Key Learning objectives
  • Sub-topics
  • Faculty
  • Duration
  • Anticipated participant numbers

The Pre-conference Subcommittee will then screen and approve the workshops based on the scientific content. The list of approved workshops will be announced on both the conference website and also emailed to the concerned teams by Friday, 1st July, 2022.

Preconference Subcommittee Chair:  

Dr. Jenifer Jeba. S.

MD (RT), Dip Pal Med, MSc Pal Med (Cardiff, UK)
Professor and Head, Palliative Care Unit, Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore, India
Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, Cardiff University

Email: preconferenceiapcon@karunashraya.org

IAPCON 2023, a physical conference slated to be held at Bengaluru, is the 30th Annual International Conference of the Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPCON 2023). The conference will be organised by Karunashraya, with the main conference scheduled to be conducted over two and half days (Friday, 10th, February 2023, to Sunday, 12th February 2023) and will have six major tracks and three minor tracks. Pre-conference workshops are scheduled for Thursday, 9th February, 2023.

‘Metamorphosis: The emergence of Subspeciality Palliative Medicine’, will be the theme of IAPCON 2023. The organizing team invites registration for this unique intellectual fest at the earliest.

Please visit the conference website for further details. 

Join us for ‘An Evening of Laughs with Dr Jagdish Chaturvedi’ on Monday 9th May, 2022 at 5:30 p.m.

Want to laugh your guts out, and have your tummies hurt for a while? Then login for Indian Association of Palliative Care’s hybrid event, ‘An Evening of Laughs with Dr Jagdish Chaturvedi’, on Monday, 9th May, 2022 at 5:30 p.m, as we commemorate World Laughter Day. The event will be held physically at Ramalingaswami Board Room, AIIMS, New Delhi, and also be live streamed via Zoom.

Dr Chaturvedi will present the evening of stand-up comedy in both English and Hindi.

Dr Chaturvedi is an ENT surgeon by profession and a corporate stand up comedian with over 400+ LIVE performances & 300+ online performances for various organisations from across the country and beyond. His comedy caters to audiences from a varied walks of life, as his comedy is observational, clean and revolves around relationships, traffic, human behavior, entrepreneurship, schooling, friendship, college life and of-course on doctors-patient interactions and medical life.

Dr Chaturvedi’s web series ‘Starting Troubles’ is currently streaming on OTT platform EPICON & Youtube channel BuddyBits. You can watch his work on his Youtube channel – Jagdish Chaturvedi.

Please click here to login and join us for a laughter filled evening. Please feel free to share this event’s details with your patients’ and their families, and your colleagues.

Don’t forget to join us along with your patients’ and families for this free event on Monday, 9th May, 2022 at 5:30 p.m. to take a dose of Dr Chaturvedi’s prescription for laughter!

After all, Laughter is the best Medicine!

Enjoy the IAPC’s and SMA-Nirvana’s evening of harmonies, ‘Singing for the Stars’, on Sunday, 15th May, 2022 at 5:00 p.m.

The Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPC) and the Shankar Mahadevan Academy Nirvana (SMA Nirvana) jointly present to you a virtual musical evening, ‘Singing for the Stars’ on Sunday, 15th May, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. (via Zoom) for palliative care patients and their caregivers, and palliative care professionals from across the country, each of whom is a star in themselves. This evening will be dedicated to all our families as we celebrate the International Day of Families.

The musical evening will be delivered by Ashwin Prabhu, an eminent and popular Vocalist, and a Performing Artist. Mr Prabhu has shared the stage with Legends like S.P. Balasubramanyam, S. Janaki, Shankar Mahadevan and other renowned artists like Vijay Prakash, Rajesh Krishnan, Sangeetha Katti Kulkarni and Late Raju Ananthaswamy.

Please click here to join us virtually on Sunday, 15th May, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. to unwind and relax, as it said that music heals the soul!

Celebrate your palliative care Nurse(s) by submitting entries before Monday, 2nd May, 2022

The IAPC wishes to commemorate the International Nurses Day by inviting you to join us in celebrating our Palliative Care Nurses!

We invite organisations and groups working in Palliative care to show the world your Superhero Nurses by sharing with us the below information: 

  • A photo of an Individual / group of palliative care nurses 
  • A 100 word description of why you think they need to be celebrated
  • The complete names of the nurse (s) and the organisation they are associated with  

We request that this information be sent to iapc.whpcd@gmail.com before Monday, 2nd May, 2022. The final compilation will be featured on the IAPC website on Thursday, 12th May, 2022.

So come on, let’s celebrate our Superhero Nurses!

Bookworms Alert: The IAPC’s Bookclub, ‘The Bookworms’, is relaunching on Friday, 27th May, 2022 at 7 p.m.

We are elated to share that we are re-launching our bookclub, ‘The Bookworms’, on Friday, 27th May, 2022 at 7 p.m.

The session in May will discuss the book, ‘The Last Lecture’ by Randy Pausch, and will be moderated by Dr Starry John Dcruz.  Please click here to download the PDF copy of the book.

We invite everyone whose thirst for reading and hunger for knowledge, will be satiated through bookclubs, to join our bookclub. Those interested to join the IAPC’s bookclub are requested to drop us an email at assistant.nio.iapc@gmail.com with an expression of interest towards the same. 

The Zoom link to join the session will be shared with our ‘Bookworms’ closer to the date of the meeting.

Till then, happy reading!

Update your details in the IAPC’s National PC Directory!

We are in the process of updating the IAPC’s National PC directory and we absolutely CANNOT do that WITHOUT YOUR SUPPORT!

We request you to please check and update (existing centers) or add (for new centers) the relevant details by clicking here. 

Once you click on the link,

  1. Please select the State from the drop down menu to check details of your center.
  2. Then choose to either update details of an existing center OR add the relevant details for a new center by clicking on the button provided in the right column of the web page.
  3. Once completed, please click the ‘Submit’ button to record your responses.

 Your invaluable support towards creating an updated directory (State Wise) will ensure that no patient is left behind and help improve access to palliative care services.

 So come on, do your bit to help someone in need!