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Committee for Applied Ethics – for the time being, for COVID times

May 27, 2020

Health care providers cannot shut down services. It is simply unacceptable. As unacceptable as soldiers deserting their posts or the police refusing to work. In [...]
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Palliative Care guidelines for COVID19 (Updated: Dec, 2020)

May 27, 2020

Palliative Care has never been more important than in this gruelling time of COVID-19. 16 palliative care experts got together in Kerala to form an [...]
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World Health Assembly (WHA) exhorts all countries to include palliative care in National Covid Response

May 22, 2020

The World Health Assembly (WHA), the decision-making body of WHO, in their annual meeting on 18 and 19 May 2020, committed governments to deliver palliative [...]
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Covid-19 & Critical Care: Ethical Dilemmas

May 19, 2020

With rising numbers of people getting COVID 19 and many dying from them, we could face the situation that Italy did – of not having [...]
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The 2014 WHA Resolution and Palliative Care in India

May 16, 2020

Revd Dr Hamilton Inbadas, Honorary Research Fellow, Glasgow End of Life Studies Group, University of Glasgow, writes: As part of the Glasgow End of Life [...]
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Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR) new guidelines

May 13, 2020

There seems to be finally an end to the dilemma amongst Indian medical practitioners about Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR) orders. Dr Roop Gursahani, Consultant [...]
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International Nurses’ Day – May 12

May 12, 2020

Pallium India’s nurses Chairman of Pallium India, Dr M R Rajagopal, writes: It is great to be recognized. It feels good when someone acknowledges the [...]
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Remembering them on Mothers’ day.

May 10, 2020

Happy mothers’ day, all mothers. If we really mean it, let us remember the millions of elderly mothers living alone in the country. (There are [...]
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New definition of palliative care:

May 9, 2020

The official WHO definition of palliative care is 18 years old. Palliative care experts around the world (including 3 Indian members) have come together to [...]
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RISE

May 1, 2020

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live” – Joan Didion In today’s world, Healthcare workers are not just frontline warriors but also the last [...]


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