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. [...]
“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 [...]
