“Female and male nurses hurried about pushing and shoving the inert body, robbing any peace, contemplation or prayer. Where was palliative care? When she did [...]
The unknown is scary. If you know what you are going through, you can deal with it. Dianne Gray, chair of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation, shares [...]
Best wishes to all nurses on 12 May 2016, international nurses’ day! You belong to one of the noblest professions in the world. You heal [...]
For the patient in pain who does not tolerate morphine very well (a proportion of patients may not, for genetic or other reasons), we have [...]
“How can you do this work, day in and day out?” This is a question that palliative care workers hear all the time. Honestly, we [...]
Congratulations to the department of social justice of Government of Kerala and to the district collector Biju Prabhakar IAS; as Kerala goes to polls for [...]
India’s poor performance in palliative care has been the subject of much international attention; the New York Times wrote not too long back, and the BBC [...]
The Hindu on 6th May 2016 reports: “Home has not been the same after my father’s death last year. But Kuttikoottam gives me absolute fun, [...]
In a report titled “Why Kerala is the best place in India to die“, Atish Patel of the BBC writes: “Kerala has more palliative care centres [...]
Dear Friends, Public Interest Litigation in Supreme Court of India concludes Final orders were passed on 01 April 2016 on our litigation in the Supreme [...]
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