Category: Newsletter

From the President’s Desk Dear Friends, The country is shifting into a reverse quarantine phase, with more facilities open and more freedom for movement. With the stringent and systematic measures taken and the two-months-long shut down, we have somehow hoarded our health system from collapse and controlled the threatening effect of COVID-19 pandemic. Even though…

From the President’s Desk Dear friends, Still the world is in the grip of COVID-19 Pandemic; not repeating the status or causalities here. We are in a mission to help Palliative Care Providers in India to continue their services in this adverse situation. Let us work together to continue our mission. In this Newsletter you…

From the President’s Desk Dear Members and Colleagues, India is passing through an extraordinary healthcare challenge because of COVID-19. In this extreme situation we assure our support to those who need care, to our colleagues, who are struggling to continue palliative care services, as well as to all the health care professionals working tirelessly all…

News & Events Conference Report The 27th annual International Conference of Indian Association of Palliative Care was organized at Guwahati (Assam) at GMCH auditorium in association with IAPC and State Cancer Institute, GMC, Guwahati from 14th-16th of February 2020 The motto of this year’s conference was- “Empower”, “Engage” and “Entrust”- to carry forward the struggle…

News & Events   CTC 4 Training Programe conducted with Asia Pacific Hospice Network (APHN) and AIIMS, New Delhi Palliative Care Training Program for Cancer Treatment Centres in India The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is in collaboration with the Asia-Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network (APHN) to provide a Palliative Care Training Program…

From the President’s Desk Wishing all the members of Indian Association of Palliative Care, a very Happy New Year-2020, the last year of the decade.  I want to thank you all for the excellent and constructive work we did in 2019. We have achieved a lot in the previous year and lot more need to…

h2>Announcement! Election for the post of IAPC Zonal members will be held during IAPCON 2020 Guwahati, on 15th February 2020 at the Conference venue. Notification and nomination form has been uploaded on IAPC website. For more details kindly visit our Home page. News & Events 4th National Conference of Students Association of PC Fourth National…

Announcement IAPCON 2020 website is functional: www.iapcon2020guwahati.in (old website is defunct) As The Filmfare awards are going to be conducted on 15th Feb 2020, in Guwahati, all the hotels will be booked. Therefore we request all the delegates to book their hotels for accommodation, before 15th Nov’19 .Contact Mr. Anand Das for bookings at reasonable…

From The President’s Desk   Dear Friends, As you must be aware, the WHO has initiated a process for revising its issued guidance documents on pain management. As part of an update of the 2011 WHO document “Ensuring balance in national policies on controlled substances: Guidance for availability and accessibility of controlled medicines”, the Division…

News & Events National CME cum CNE & Workshop on Pain and Palliative care NEIGRIHMS (North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences,Shillong) organized National CME cum CNE & Workshop from 9th to 11th Aug’19. This included panel discussion on Morphine and other opioids and the legal aspects of using it. Panelists…