- Karen Anderson, Lecturer & Unit Coordinator, Edith Cowan University In the December 2015 Issue of the Australasian Palliative Link International Newsletter, Dr Odette Spruyt wrote of her personal experience of her mother’s passing in April 2015. For Odette, knowing…
The visit made in December 2015 was the third visit to Cachar Cancer Centre undertaken by members of APLI in the last three years. The visits have been part of Project Hamrahi, a collaboration between APLI and Pallium India. In…
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Working with the dying reveals two aspects of our nature…the first being our sense of compassion, which is bountiful and healing; not only for the patient and their family and friends, who too suffer, but also for our own self;…
In 2015 I was fortunate to have had the opportunity of travelling twice to India as part of Project Hamrahi activities. In June I spent a week with Anjum Joad at the Bhagwan Mahaveer Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (BMCHRC)…
Fiji Islands The team at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital welcomed me to visit them in November to meet and talk together about their efforts to develop palliative care in Fiji. Dr Fong, obstretician gynaecologist and Chairperson of the National…
“Palliative Care is the health system platform for all countries” - Dr Simon Sutcliffe, IAPCON, 2105 There is widespread recognition of the importance of palliative care, with major advances in policy and advocacy in recent years (1, 2). One of the…
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The 23rd International Conference of the Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPCON 2016) will be held in Pune from February 12 to 14, 2016. This is being organised by Cipla Palliative Care and Training Centre and will be held at…
News from Dr Ranjan Mallawaaarachchi, Founder and Coordinating secretary, Regional Association of Palliative Care, Northern Province. Consultant OMF surgeon, District General Hospital, Vavuniya and Teaching Hospital, Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Back ground information The concept of palliative care is very new…