Announcement of Annual General Body Meeting of IAPC 2021 The Annual General Meeting of the Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPC) will be held on Saturday, 20th of March, 2021. The AGM meeting will be virtual through zoom. The Zoom meeting ID and password will be announced on IAPC website by Monday, 15th of March,…
Read MoreIndian Association of Palliative Care 28th International Conference The 28th International Conference of Indian Association of Palliative Care – IAPCON2021 – will be held virtually on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the 19th, 20th and 21st of March, 2021 from 4 PM to 8 PM. Virtual per-conference workshops will be held on Thursday, the 18th of…
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From the President’s Desk Dear Friends, In the current scenario, we cannot think about meetings or conferences which need the physical presence of the participants. Virtual events are the only strategy for carrying forward our mission in this pandemic era. We at IAPC are also depending on this and utilising the virtual platforms to the…
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The virtual workshop on Palliative Care in Geriatric Oncology will be held on 5th December 2020 from 2 PM to 5 PM IST Geriatric Oncology is the theme of the annual conference of Oncology Forum for the year 2020 (OFCON 2020). The virtual conference will be held from 4th to 6th December 2020. A workshop on…
Read MoreFrom the President’s Desk Dear Friends, Together we celebrated World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, once again, in 2020, on 10th October. Palliative care groups in India joined with the global community to raise their voice for Palliative Care. While looking back, we can see that considerable progress has been made in the field of…
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How the care you provide makes the patient and family relieved from their suffering! Not only the physical suffering; here is an experience shared by Dr. Biji M. S. of Malabar Cancer Centre, Thalasseri. Chandramathi’s (name changed) disease, Carcinoma rectum, was in an advanced stage when she first came to our Palliative clinic, a year…
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Meheli Chakraborty narrates a loving husband’s tribute to his wife by providing care to hundreds of needy people. Santanu was a musician. Ruma was the lead singer in Santanu’s musical band “Melody”. Ruma and Santanu got married on 26th January 1995. Four years later, Ruma became pregnant and in the first month of pregnancy, during…
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Lessons: In Life, In Death by Aneka She grew up in an ordinary middle-class family. She was sent to school with her elder brothers, in contravention of the times, largely thanks to her forward-thinking mother. She wanted to become a schoolteacher like her mother. Post-marriage she had to move to a metropolitan city in another…
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Applications invited for Post Doctoral Fellowship in Pain and Palliative Care Applications invited for Post Doctoral Fellowship in Pain and Palliative Care by MNJ Institute of Oncology & RCC, Hyderabad, affiliated by Kaloji Narayanaro University of Health Sciences, Telangana. The applicant should possess post graduate degree (MD/DNB/Diploma) in any clinical speciality. Last date to receive…
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Apply Now! Fellowship in Palliative Care – 2021 Last date for receiving applications: 30th November 2020 Fellowship in Palliative Care is an advanced course run by the Institute of Palliative Medicine, Kozhikode, India in partnership with Sanjeevan Palliative Care Project, Pondicherry, India, St Christopher’s Hospice, London, United Kingdom and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Bangladesh.…
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