Published on: November 1, 2014

We are glad to announce the starting of one more palliative care training centre; this time in Gujarat Cancer & Research Institute (GCRI) Ahmedabad, thanks to the initiative of Dr Geeta Joshi, who heads Palliative Medicine Department and is the Deputy Director of the Institute, and thanks to the support from Pallium India – USA.

So far Pallium India has been able to work with other institutions to develop the following training centres: one each in Trivandrum (Trivandrum Institute of Palliative Sciences), Hyderabad (Regional Cancer Centre at MNJ Institute of Oncology) and Jaipur (Bhagwan Mahaveer Cancer Hospital & Research Centre). And we are working with Saroj Gupta Cancer Institute and Research Institute and with East India Palliative Care (EIPC) to upgrade their training facility.

The beginning of the training centres in Jaipur and Ahmedabad are major achievements because North India has practically no other facility. Now doctors, nurses and others from North India do not have to travel all the way to South India any more.

The first six weeks course for doctors and nurses at GCRI, Ahmedabad will be our major celebration on New Year Day, the first of January, 2015. (Details on the course are available at: https://palliumindia.org/courses/.)

Congratulations, Dr Geeta Joshi, and thank you very much, Dr Jerina Kapoor of Pallium India USA, for the support.