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Dr M.R. Rajagopal receives prestigious Human Rights Award for “Extraordinary Activism”
Dr M.R. Rajagopal, Chairman of Pallium India and tireless champion of the rights of palliative care patients in India, has been awarded Human Rights Watch’s Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism. Dr Rajagopal received this award in recognition of more than 20 years spent fighting conditions that cause patients to suffer severe pain unnecessarily. Human Rights Watch has honoured Dr Rajagopal “for his efforts to defend the right of…
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Free training programme for doctors and nurses on paediatric palliative care
IAPC’s Children’s Palliative Care (CPC) Project is organising a free four-week training programme on paediatric palliative care for doctors and nurses at Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai. The three-day contact session from September 29 to October 1, 2014 will be followed by two weeks of home-based case studies and assignments. The last week will be devoted to hands-on training in palliative care at Tata Memorial Hospital and LTMG Hospital, Mumbai and…
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IAPC and ISCCM join hands to achieve excellence in end-of-life care
In a path-breaking partnership, the Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPC) and the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM) have joined hands with the objective of achieving excellence in end-of-life care. The integrated care plan, published in the Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, comes four years after a study of quality of death in 40 countries placed India at the bottom. The 2010 report on this study commissioned…
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IAPC position: We oppose all forms of euthanasia
In response to the Supreme Court’s call for a debate on the issue, IAPC has proclaimed its unambiguous stand on euthanasia. The Indian Association of Palliative Care opposes euthanasia in all its forms. Good symptom control through palliative care can pre-empt the request for euthanasia. Withholding or withdrawing treatment that is medically futile does not amount to euthanasia. The debate on euthanasia or mercy killing has been raging for some…
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Results of June 2014 IAPC Certificate Course
Results of the June 2014 IAPC Certificate Course in Essentials of Palliative Care are announced. Congratulations to all successful candidates! Please collect your certificates and mark lists from your centre after September 20, 2014. Ready to move on to your 10-day hands-on training? As you may know, successful completion of this 10-day training at any recognised palliative care centre is the IAPC-recommended qualification for doctors to apply for the licence…
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Sanjeevani to usher in community-based Palliative Care movement in West Bengal
Saif Mohammed, Institute of Palliative Medicine Over a 1000 trained volunteers have geared up to launch the first-ever community-based palliative care programme in east India, in Nadia district of West Bengal. Named Sanjeevani (“life-giving” in Sanskrit), the programme is set to commence in Krishnanagar, the district headquarters of Nadia and the neighbouring villages of Badkulla, Bagulla, Dignagar, Dogachi, Bahadurpur and Chapra. Sanjeevani has been envisioned by Dr P B Salim,…
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Happy Feet Home is up and running
It has been almost a year and a half since two enthusiastic entrepreneurs from Mumbai in India, Mansi Shah and Abhishek Tatiya, started work on their dream of opening India’s very first children’s hospice. Long days, endless nights, an insane amount of thinking, marathon meetings, shameless networking and countless questioning finally came to fruition on14 August 2014.Yes, Happy Feet Home is up and running! The long wait is over!They welcomed…
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IAPC calls for national policy to attain clinical excellence in end of life care
In its consensus position statement just published in the September-December 2014 issue of the Indian Journal of Palliative Care, the Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPC) has asserted that access to palliative care and end of life care is a human right and that all patients are entitled to a dignified death. It has vowed to involve all stakeholders and create the right environment to develop a nationwide uniform…
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MUHS includes palliative care in paediatric postgraduate curriculum
In a milestone decision the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik announced last month that palliative care will become a part of the curriculum for paediatricians in that institution. Dr Pradnya Talawadekar, Country Co-ordinator for the Children’s Palliative Care Project at the Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPC) and Dr Maryann Muckaden, ICPCN board chairperson and head of palliative care at Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai have been pursuing the…
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Government consults with IAPC and other stakeholders on proposed narcotic drug rules
The Director of Narcotics, Rajesh Srivastava, and other officials of the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Government of India consulted with leaders in palliative care on July 28, 2014 on the proposed rules for narcotic drugs. Apart from drug controllers from most states, those present included Dr Nagesh Simha, President of IAPC, Dr M R Rajagopal, Chairman of Pallium India, Dr Sushma Bhatnagar, Editor of the Indian Journal of…
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Colloquium on Spiritual Care in Palliative Care
Spiritual care is now being recognised as an important component of palliative care. How can we deliver spiritual care? How do we address this in a multi-cultural society like India? How does one take a spiritual history? What is the current state of research on this aspect? The Bangalore Hospice Trust – Karunashraya is organizing a colloquium to seek answers to these questions and more. Prof. Santosh Chaturvedi and Prof.…
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2014 MD Anderson Cancer Center Palliative Medicine Conference
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s 18th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Supportive Care, Hospice and Palliative Medicine will be held on September 5 and 6, 2014. Prior to the conference there will be a review course on Updates in Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Intensive Physician Board Review on September 2 to 4, 2014. For details, please write to dcuello@mdanderson.org
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