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Newsletter: October 2023 Edition From the President’s Desk Hello Friends, We, at the IAPC, are excited to participate and celebrate the upcoming World Hospice and Palliative Care Day (WHPCD) observance on Saturday, 14th October 2023. In line with this, I am excited to invite palliative care institutions from across the country to share and showcase their WHPCD Celebrations…
Palliative Care for Cardiovascular Disease – Dr Eric Borges, Mumbai The management of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) using Palliative Care (PC) principles is in its infancy in India and is evolving worldwide. To commemorate ‘World Heart Day’, observed on 29th September, I am presenting my approach to this very complex field. The concept of Palliative Care was…
Navigating Suicidality in Palliative Care: A Multi-dimensional View – Dr Sravannthi Maya, Hyderabad From being just a specialty to being an emerging field in care provision, and to now having specialist and sub specialties, palliative care has come a long way from the hospice movement back in 1980’s. (Salins et al., 2022). Palliative care addresses…
You can feel better even when you are not getting better – Mr Krishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Mumbai When you are in the right place at the right time, you turn lucky. I got lucky in September 2021, for it was when I got the nod at Shankar Mahadevan Academy, a not-for-profit Trust, to become a part…
The Beautiful Journey of a Nurse: Touching Lives with Compassion – Lt Col Lovely Antony (Retd), Kozhikode As a small child, I dreamt of becoming a soldier, but a different calling tugged at my heartstrings as I grew older. I wanted to be a nurse, a beacon of hope and healing in people’s lives. This…
Newsletter: September 2023 Edition From the President’s Desk Hello Friends, I am pleased to inform you that abstract submissions are now open for the 31st Annual International Conference of the Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPCON 2024), which will be held in February 2024, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The organising committee of IAPCON 2024, invites researchers to…
My journey in Palliative Care – Ms Nileema Sharad Shingade, New Delhi For 12 years I worked in a cancer department and strived to provide the best possible nursing care for my patients who had undergone surgery, or for those who were getting chemotherapy or radiation as a part of their cancer treatment. During that…
Moment of hope during the humanitarian crisis in Manipur – Dr Nandan Choudhary, Imphal There is no denying that the world is in a state of chaos. But amidst all the turmoil, there are moments of hope and inspiration. Quoting Archbishop “Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits…
Palliative care during humanitarian crisis: An inside view from Ukraine – Dr Olena Riga (Ukraine), Ms Joan Marston (South Africa) For Ukrainians and many people across the globe, we see the world before Thursday, 24th February, 2022, and after that. The world for us is accordingly divided into light and darkness. Our society built a…
The Healing Power of Presence: A simple act of sitting beside a patient – Dr Kamalakar, Hyderabad In a place where time seems to stand still, where life and death dance in a delicate balance, the presence of a physician can make a world of difference for the patient and their caregivers. I believe that…
