Imagine… someone has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. Most friends stop calling. Eventually one calls to say, “I pray for you every day.” In [...]
Dear Friends, When we celebrated (yes, celebrated, not just observed) World hospice and Palliative Care Day on the 8th of October at Trivandrum, it lead [...]
We Waited a Long Time for This Day! For Trivandrum Institute of Palliative Sciences (TIPS), the flagship of Pallium India, the 5th of September was [...]
Heartening Action by Government of India Our July newsletter had started with a call to action regarding Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). We had attached Pallium India’s letter [...]
Dear Friends, A Special Call to Action – Send a letter to highlight pain management for the United Nations NCD Summit Outcomes Document. This September [...]
“He understood the leprosy of the leper, the darkness of the blind, the fierce misery of those who live for pleasure and the strange poverty [...]
Thank You Freemasons! “The best portion of a good man’s life – his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love” – William Wordsworth Pallium India’s [...]
Dr Sreenivasa Surisetty is a palliative care physician in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. He took the trouble to undergo training in palliative care and provides free palliative [...]
We are sorry to start this issue with some sad news from our friend and benefactor, Mr Bruce Davis. He wrote to tell us that [...]
Opener… Our medical social worker Aneeja Mariam Joseph recounts this experience that one of our patients with advanced cancer shared with her. The man was [...]
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