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…
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From 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……
Read MoreFrom the President’s Desk Dear Friends, India is fighting, in all possible means against the dangerous second wave of COVID 19 which has already hit us hard and uprooted our normal life. It is heart-breaking to see the sufferings of thousands of people; it is extremely painful to witness so many deaths in a short…
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Applications invited for the June 2021 batch of the ‘Certificate Course in Essentials of Palliative Care (CCEPC)’ course Click here to view more details of the course.
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Missed watching a session? Want to re-watch a session? or Want to share the sessions with your friends and colleagues? Click the below links to watch the various sessions from the IAPCON 2021. Day 1: 19 March, 2021 Session A: Inauguration and Scientific sessions Session B: The CCEPC course co-ordinators session Session C: Pre-conference workshop…
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The Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network (APHN) has opened applications for the Rosalie Shaw Travel Scholarship (RSTS) and APHN Bursaries for individuals attending the 14th Asia Pacific Hospice Conference (Online), scheduled for the Saturday, 13th and Sunday, 14th of November, 2021. The Rosalie Shaw Travel Scholarship also covers the registration fee and is available…
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