Announcements / Messages from IAPC
IAPC’s celebration of National Doctors’ Day
The IAPC extends its heartiest warm wishes to all the Palliative Care Doctors on the occasion of National Doctors’ Day.
On this occasion, the IAPC presents to you a short compilation of the MD and DNB doctors of Palliative Medicine to recognise, encourage, motivate and introduce these young professionals to the larger palliative care community via the IAPC’s national platform.
The project aims to motivate our young professionals to develop and spread palliative care throughout the country, and also inspire them to take on new challenges towards improving the delivery of quality palliative care in the country.
The IAPC would like to thank the champions, from each of the centers offering MD and DNB in Palliative Medicine, for their cooperation and enthusiastic support towards the successful completion of this compilation. This project would not have been possible without the perseverance and determination from each one of these champions!
Last but not the least, the IAPC once again acknowledges and appreciates all the pioneers and every other doctor practising palliative medicine in India. Palliative care / medicine in the country would not be what it is today, if not for the efforts from each of you!
Happy Doctors Day! Please click here to view the IAPC’s Celebration of National Doctors’ Day.
The WHPCD’s Toolkit for 2022, has been released!
The Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA) has published this year’s World Hospice and Palliative Care Day’s (WHPCD) toolkit.
This year’s WHPCD will be celebrated on 8th October 2022, with the theme, ‘Healing Hearts and Communities’.
The World Hospice and Palliative Care Day is an annual unified day of action to celebrate and support hospice and palliative care around the world.
The WHPCA team shares that the online tool kit will include social media resources including suggested social media content for one to adapt, a media release template, a template for writing to the government to advocate for palliative care and a document with fundraising hints and tips.
They further add that more resources will be added to the WHPCA website over the coming months and to keep checking for updates.
So download your toolkit and get started in planning and promoting your WHPCD activities!
Support requested: Cynthia Goh Global Palliative Care Institute
Contributions are requested towards the establishment of Dr Cynthia Goh’s legacy project, the Cynthia Goh Global Palliative Care Institute. The project will be established by SingHealth Duke-NUS Supportive and Palliative Care Centre and is being spearheaded by Dr Goh’s family.
The project aims to design and develop palliative care programs towards improving access to palliative care for those in need of such services, and also focuses on advancing multi-region research and interdisciplinary education to enhance palliative care practice and standards in Singapore and the Asia Pacific region.
The project targets to raise an endowed donation amounting to S$10 million (which will be matched to S$20 million), along with an expendable donation worth S$2 million (which will be matched to S$2 million) to fund relevant expenses.
IAPC and SMA-Nirvana’s evening of harmonies, ‘Singing for the Stars’, is scheduled for 30th July, 2022, at 3:50 p.m.
What better way to celebrate the ‘International Day of Friendship’, than by celebrating the intersection and the power of music and friendship. Join us on Saturday, 30th July, 2022, at 3:50 p.m. (via Zoom), for an evening of ‘Singing for the Stars’ jointly presented by the Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPC) and the Shankar Mahadevan Academy Nirvana (SMA Nirvana). The evening is dedicated to our palliative care patients and their caregivers, and the palliative care professionals from across the country, each of whom is a star in themselves.
The session in July will be delivered by Mr Kumaran Muthuraman, a Performing artist and a Musician.
Join us to celebrate friendship and the power of music, on Saturday, 30th July, 2022, at 3:50 p.m.
Update from the June event:
The musical evening for June, was delivered on Tuesday, 21st June, 2022, at 4:00 p.m. (via Zoom), to commemorate World Music Day.
Ms Shruti Bhide and her father, Mr Sunil Bhide, enthralled the audience with their melodious yet energy packed singing. The fantastic duo rendered popular numbers from Hindi, Bengali, Kannada Tamil, Marathi and Malayalam.
Thank you, Ms Shruti and Mr Sunil, for sharing your time and for delivering such a lovely show which brought smiles on the faces of our palliative care patients and their families.
Do visit the IAPC’s Facebook page to watch a recording of the session.
Webinar on ‘Understanding Women in Sex Work: A First step towards an inclusion in palliative care services’ was conducted successfully on Thursday, 2nd June, 2022
The webinar on ‘Understanding Women in Sex Work : A First step towards inclusion in palliative care services’, jointly organised by the IAPC, the Uttara Karnataka Mahila Okkoota and Samraksha was conducted on Thursday, 2nd June, 2022, and was a grand success.
The webinar commemorated the International Sex Workers Day, and provided the PC community with a perspective of the socio legal framework within which sex work operates in Indian Society and also provided an overview of the different ways in which sex work operates in the country and the identities of the different women practicing sex work. The webinar also highlighted how involvement in sex work affects support structures for women, and its impact on care along with the issues faced by this group of women while accessing health care services.
The very interesting and thought provoking webinar was well appreciated. The event was also covered by the Indian Express, Bengaluru edition. Please click here to view the press coverage.
Snippets from feedback received at the session as follows:
“I am in oncology palliative care and its relevance to sex workers was unknown to me; this is an eye opener concerning their social and medical problems. I feel is very important to include them under palliative care”
“Thanks a lot to the organisers for hosting such a webinar on an often neglected subject and bringing it into the focus it deserves”
“Thank you so much for organising such an insightful discussion. It was indeed an eye opener for me.”
Please click here to watch a recording of the webinar, in case you missed it.
We thank our panelists for sharing their time and for educating the palliative care community about this very important topic.
New job listings posted on the IAPC’s Careers page!
Head over to the IAPC’s ‘View job vacancy’ page to check out the new vacancies in palliative care from across the country.
Please feel free to also submit a vacancy from your center.
IAPCON 2023: Abstract submissions are now open!
The organisers of IAPCON 2023, invites researchers to submit their abstracts for presentation of their work to the global palliative care fraternity. Please click here to submit your abstract.
The 30th Annual International Conference of the Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPCON 2023), will be a physical conference at Bengaluru, organised by Karunashraya. The main conference is scheduled to be conducted over two and half days (Friday, 10th February 2023, to Sunday, 12th February 2023) with six major tracks and three minor tracks. Pre-conference workshops are scheduled for Thursday, 9th February, 2023.
The theme of IAPCON 2023 is ‘Metamorphosis: The emergence of Subspeciality Palliative Medicine’.
The organising team of IAPCON 2023, invites you to register for this unique intellectual fest at the earliest. Please visit the conference website for further details.
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 centres) or add (for new centres) the relevant details by clicking here.
On the ‘Palliative Care Directory of India’ page, you will find a selector for State-wise List of Palliative Care centres.
- Please select your State or UT (Union Territory) from the drop down list to check details of your centre.
- The page that opens will display the list of PC centres within your Sate or UT.
- At the right column of the page you will find a button to submit or update details of Palliative Care centres.
- Click on the button if you need to:
- submit details of your centre to the directory, or
- correct the details of your centre already listed in the directory.
- The page that opens is a form where you are required to fill up the relevant details of your centre carefully.
- 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!