Dear Friends, Slow, very slow progress; but clearly positive trend in access to pain relief in India We have generally relied on the quantity of [...]
We provide financial assistance and career guidance to patients’ children who may have to drop out of school because of disease or death in the [...]
Stephen Connor of WHPCA and Katherine Pettus of IAHPC led advocacy for palliative care in dementia at the World Health Assembly, on 28 May, 2016, [...]
The “International Update on Pain Management and Palliative Care Advances 2016“, organized by the Pain and Palliative Care Unit, Shri Guru Ram Rai Institute of [...]
CanKids…KidsCan, a registered charitable National Society dedicated to Change for Childhood Cancer in India, invites applications for the post of Palliative Care Support Nurse. Job [...]
“In India, there is a fight-to-the-death mentality about treating the terminally ill,” writes Dr Jean Jacob in an article titled “Last Resort: India is a [...]
“Americans are increasingly addicted to opioids. Meanwhile people in poor countries die in agony without them”, says this recent article in The Economist that explores [...]
We have generally relied on the quantity of morphine going out of the Government Opium and Alkaloid Works (GOAW) as the index of access to [...]
On May 20th, 2016, Syndicate Bank donated a car to support Pallium India’s home visit program. At a function organized in Syndicate Bank Regional Office, Vazhuthacaud, [...]
We palliative care workers are often at a loss to convey adequately to others the simple fact: Intensity of pain can be beyond our imagination. [...]
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