“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 [...]
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 [...]
We know that several palliative care centres are struggling with various ethical issues in relation to patient care in the context of the COVID crisis. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
With rising numbers of people getting COVID 19 and many dying from them, we could face the situation that Italy did – of not having [...]
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 [...]
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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