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Restoring Comfort, Dignity, and Hope

May 30, 2026

For more than a decade, Prakash Kumar Bastia lived with oral cancer. Diagnosed with carcinoma of the buccal mucosa in 2013, the 42-year-old underwent surgery, [...]
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Report of Community Listening Session on Home-Based Palliative Care in Karnataka

May 29, 2026

A community listening session on home-based palliative care was conducted as part of Pallium India’s Karnataka initiative to understand the lived experiences, needs, challenges, and expectations of caregivers and families caring for loved ones with serious illness at home.

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Lessons from Mundiapally

May 29, 2026

The Believers Medical Center, Mundiapally offers a successful, replicable framework that can be implemented at tertiary medical colleges in India. There will definitely be a need to tailor services according to the needs of the population. In states with a high proportion of elderly, this could be a feasible solution.
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Between Farewells and Responsibilities

May 19, 2026

A deeply moving reflection on the unseen emotional burden carried by nurses in palliative care, the children they lose, the grief they quietly endure, and the compassion that helps them continue caring through pain and loss.
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Maybe the Truth Is

May 19, 2026

We Don’t Lack Compassion Outside, We Lack It Within Is compassion really disappearing from the world—or is it something quietly fading within us? Not very [...]
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What Does It Mean To Care For Someone With a Serious Illness?

May 14, 2026

A day in the life of a counsellor and nurse in Mumbai as they provide home-based palliative care, helping patients and families face illness, loss, [...]
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May 2026

May 1, 2026

Highlights: World Health Day - ‘Together for health; stand with science’; Punch the Monkey and palliative care, Co-building Hope and Harmony, news, training and updates
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Rajkumar’s Journey

May 1, 2026

Rajkumar Majhi, a 25-year-old daily wage laborer from Sundargarh, lived a simple life with his wife. He was the sole earning member of his family, [...]
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Teaching Nursing in Dark Hours

May 1, 2026

The WhatsApp message came just after dawn: “Doctor, the road is blocked. Is it safe to come tomorrow?” This was the first thing I saw [...]
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A Tapestry of Joy, Care, and Compassion

May 1, 2026

Kuttikoottam 2026 Concludes with Lasting Memories The Kuttikoottam Summer Camp 2026, held from April 23 to 25, brought together 29 children from Pallium India families [...]