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A Magical Evening by Shankar Mahadevan Academy

September 17, 2021

SMA Nirvana: On Sunday, September 12, 2021, Shankar Mahadevan Academy (SMA) gifted a magical music evening to Pallium India's palliative care patients, caregivers, volunteers and staff.
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Miracles still happen

September 9, 2021

Meet the doctor couple Shilpa Khanna and Chetanya Malik who worked hard to provide humane care to the COVID-infected, including intensive care.
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Obituary: Mr Keshav Desiraju

September 6, 2021

Pallium India is deeply saddened by the death of Mr Keshav Desiraju, former Principal Secretary of Government of India, grandson of the first vice-president of India Dr S Radhakrishnan and a trustee of Pallium India. He died following a heart attack, on September 5, 2021.

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Value of patients’ time

September 3, 2021

Dr Christopher Booth of Queens’ University, Kingston, Canada (he is also honorary consultant to Pallium India), Dr Adam Fundytus and Dr Vinay Prasad bring focus on the loss of patients’ time vis-à-vis the benefits of cancer treatment with palliative intent.
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September 2021

September 1, 2021

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A Conversation about the Hidden Faces of Grief

August 30, 2021

Pallium India hosted a webinar titled "A Conversation about the Hidden Faces of Grief", on the 24th of August, 2021. The event was organized to commemorate the death anniversary of Dr Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.

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Three events on Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’ death anniversary

August 22, 2021

Three events on Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s death anniversary, August 24, organized by Pallium India, IAPC Kerala and ICMR Bioethics NCDIR. Register now.
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Congratulations, Poonam Bagai

August 16, 2021

The Founder Chairman of Cankids…KidsCan, Poonam Bagai (who is also the vice-chairman of Pallium India) has been awarded the prestigious Vedica Women Alliance-V-WA 50- A Women Leader in Social Impact 2021.
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Pallium India is now a vaccination centre

August 9, 2021

Pallium India is now an approved vaccination centre and we are now able to get COVID vaccine to all our patients.

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Shouldn’t this be the standard of healthcare?

August 9, 2021

"Treating the patient holistically, rather than just their disease—shouldn’t that be the standard of health care?"
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre – Educational programme

August 7, 2021

In association with the World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2021, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre organises a two and a half day educational programme on the 5th and 6th of October.

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‘Palliative Medicine Reports’ indexed in PubMed Central

August 7, 2021

Rabindranath Tagore prayed for a world 'where knowledge is free'. The realities in the medical world are almost the opposite.