My Experience from the battle fields of a COVID Hospital – Dr. Ram Singh, AIIMS, New Delhi The constantly evolving novel corona virus infection and the havoc it unleashed has created a lot of clamor among health care professionals globally. Despite advancements in medicine and medical technology, this pandemic manufactured a situation that was so…
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Holistic care at Home: Golden Butterflies’ efforts to help child-patients and families cope during COVID-19 – Aneka Paul, Stella Matthew, Ramalakshmi V., Chennai The novel coronavirus (SARS CoV-2) spread worldwide, lakhs of people succumbed to COVID-19 (COrona VIrus Disease), and healthcare systems across the globe crumbled under the patient load. Chronically ill or terminally ill…
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One step at a time: The story of a cancer survivor – Ramalakshmi V., Stella Matthew, Aneka Paul, Chennai Sarita (name changed) is a very smart and young girl, who lives with her mother and older sister. Her mother became the sole breadwinner of the family after she was deserted by her husband. One fine…
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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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Globally, Autistic Pride Day is celebrated on June 18 every year. On this occasion we present to you two very interesting articles that highlight how integrating the elements of palliative care help improve the quality of life of autistic individuals and their families. Autism Spectrum Disorder and It’s Management – Dr. Procheta Mahanta, Assam Don…
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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……
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The World Social Work day is a day, especially ear marked in a year, to celebrate social workers across the globe to appreciate and acknowledge their crucial and phenomenal contribution to mankind. The International Federation of Social Workers (www.ifsw.org) declared ‘Ubuntu: I am Because We Are’ as the theme for 2021 as it highlights the…
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Living Well with Kidney Disease: Is it a goal or a dream for children with chronic kidney disease? Dr. Dharshan Rangaswamy, Head for Division of Paediatric Nephrology; Associate Professor, Department of Nephrology, Kasturba Hospital and Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India. Globally, the second Thursday of March, is recognized as World Kidney…
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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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