Actor turns advocate at IAPCON, Hyderabad
“Despite being able to afford the best medical care, my mother endured a lot of pain for seven years due to various health complications,” says Actor Akkineni Nagarjuna. “Not a single doctor came to us and told us that there was an option for us in palliative care.” Shri Nagarjuna was addressing palliative care enthusiasts at the inauguration of the 22nd annual conference of the Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPCON) in Hyderabad. “I strongly feel the urge to talk about it and make others aware of the importance of palliative care,” he said.
Shri Nagarjuna said that terminally ill patients should not be allowed to die in pain and their families should never undergo the trauma of looking-on helplessly. He narrated his own experiences of watching his mother endure suffering during the final stages of her life. His father was provided palliative care during his last days. “My father was smiling when he died,” he said.
Read the news in The Hindu.
Annual conferences of Indian Association of Palliative Care are getting better by the year. Acting as an important venue for palliative care activists to get together, exchange experiences and learn from one another, this years’s conference at Hyderabad and the pre-conference workshops which preceded it, were a huge success.
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