From the President’s Desk Dear Friends, The pandemic has engulfed the world for the second year now; and we are still fighting to survive. In India, the horrendous second wave of COVID-19 pandemic is almost over. Life seems to be returning to ‘NORMAL’ though we are all aware that this ‘NORMALCY’ is superficial with post-COVID…
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My Experience from the battle fields of a COVID Hospital – Dr. Ram Singh, AIIMS, New Delhi The constantly evolving novel corona virus infection and the havoc it unleashed has created a lot of clamor among health care professionals globally. Despite advancements in medicine and medical technology, this pandemic manufactured a situation that was so…
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Holistic care at Home: Golden Butterflies’ efforts to help child-patients and families cope during COVID-19 – Aneka Paul, Stella Matthew, Ramalakshmi V., Chennai The novel coronavirus (SARS CoV-2) spread worldwide, lakhs of people succumbed to COVID-19 (COrona VIrus Disease), and healthcare systems across the globe crumbled under the patient load. Chronically ill or terminally ill…
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One step at a time: The story of a cancer survivor – Ramalakshmi V., Stella Matthew, Aneka Paul, Chennai Sarita (name changed) is a very smart and young girl, who lives with her mother and older sister. Her mother became the sole breadwinner of the family after she was deserted by her husband. One fine…
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Globally, Father’s day is celebrated on June 20 to celebrate, recognize and honour fathers’, father figures, paternal bonds and the role of fathers’ in the society. We chose to honour fathers’ and the paternal bond that palliative care professionals so often share with their patients while caring for them by bringing to you Mr. Lakshminarayanan’s…
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Covid-19 pandemic and Mental Health: Experiences of Organising Services at a Mental Health Care Institution A monograph by AIIMS, New Delhi The Department of Psychiatry & National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC), All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi has published a monograph ‘Covid-19 pandemic and Mental Health: Experiences of Organising Services at a…
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Vidhi Center for Legal Policy and The End of Life Care in India Task Force (ELICIT) continue their efforts to improve the end of life care in India as they develop the model legal framework 2.0. This framework builds upon their existing efforts to further patients’ rights and ethical best practices, while also being fully…
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The Global Partners in Care has launched the “Palliative Care Heroes” campaign to say ‘Thank You’ to the estimated 400,000 healthcare workers and 1.2 million volunteers delivering palliative care globally by recognizing and celebrating the magnanimous contributions of these palliative care workers, towards improving the quality of living (and dying); particularly their selfless and tireless…
Read MoreFrom the President’s Desk Dear Friends, We sincerely hope and pray that we are inching closer towards the end of the India’s second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. I wouldn’t be wrong in saying that each of us have been impacted and left shattered physically and/or emotionally. Several of us are also grieving and attempting…
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Mother’s day 9th May The World celebrates Mother’s Day on 9th May each year, with renewed enthusiasm, grandeur and gratitude. Our Social media networks, the commercial ads and every other platform get flooded with portraits of a ‘Mother’ and enlists her various attributes and virtues of unconditional love, sacrifice, patience, heroic, suffering and many more……
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