Chairman of Pallium India, Dr M R Rajagopal writes: In the new palliative care initiative in Calicut in the 1990s, Mr Asoka Kumar was the [...]
An important initiative was launched on 29 June 2020 by the Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPC). There are three institutions offering a postgraduate degree [...]
Indian Journal of Palliative Care, a journal indexed in PubMed Central and available for free access, has published a supplement dedicated to palliative care in [...]
On June 2, 2020, Pallium India in collaboration with IHW Council, organized an online webinar on the topic “Key role of Palliative Care in COVID19 [...]
“World Health Organization (WHO) asks healthcare to reach people where they are and when they need it. Today, the tendency of healthcare institutions is to go [...]
When treatments are likely to be futile, “we have to accept death as an inevitable consequence of life, and allow a human being to leave [...]
“A published study based on the experience in 12 New York hospitals showed that only 11.9% of 320 patients survived, in whom ventilators were used [...]
Welcome to Pallium India’s Newsletter! JUNE 2020 Click here to subscribe to our newsletter World Health Assembly (WHA) exhorts all countries to include palliative care [...]
Ms. Sherin Wilfred and Ms. Bincy Babu, medical social workers of Pallium India shared their COVID-lockdown experiences (“Palliative Care Social Work Activities during the Covid [...]
Please sign this petition from IAPC to MCI Board of Governors requesting modification to the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines issued on 25 March 2020. The Telemedicine [...]
