WORLD PALLIATIVE CARE DAY
While people all over the world will be observing World Palliative Care Day on October 8, in the city, Pallium India, together with District Panchayat, National Rural Health Mission and Kudumbashree, is organising a unique get-together - ‘Snehasanthwana Sangamam-2011’ for patients under palliative care in and around Thiruvananthapuam, particularly those who are bed-bound round the year. It is hoped that the event will give patients and people from the community the opportunity to interact, empathise and join hands to further the cause of palliative care.
There will be a discussion with officials from the Kerala Social Security Mission on the different schemes and benefits that the patients can avail of. Volunteer artistes will come together to sing to celebrate ‘Voices for Hospices’, followed by a magic show to entertain the audience. The patients, along with their families, will be then taken on an outing to the Museum. Snehasanthwana Sangamam-2011 will be held at Youth Centre, Salvation Army , Kowdiar, between 9 am to 5 pm on Saturday. 
Saturday 8 October 2011 marks World Hospice and Palliative Care Day. The Public Health Agency (PHA) Would like to celebrate and support hospice and palliative care around the world by raising awareness and understanding of the needs – medical, social, practical and spiritual– of people living with a life-limiting illness, and their familes This year’s World Hospice and Palliative Care Day theme is ‘Many diseases, many lives, many voices – palliative care for non-communicable conditions’. The theme will focus on how people living with conditions that are not infectious can benefit from palliative care. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which include cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory conditions and diabetes, make up 60% of deaths worldwide. The majority of these deaths occur in low and middle income countries, where palliative care is often not available.“It has been encouraging to see the plans being taken forward by the Health and Social Care Trusts in partnership with local hospices and other providers, and involving local people“We aim to ensure that people receiving palliative care, their families and carers, are provided with high quality care across all settings and conditions, and are supported to enjoy a good quality of life, maximising their potential through the course of their illness.“There is still some progress to be made within the context of the review of health and social services. We are looking for statutory and voluntary services to work together to make a significant difference in improving access to high quality services for those with life-limiting conditions, and to develop innovative approaches to care.”
Commemorating World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology is organising awareness camp across four colleges in the city from Saturday. The Institute is focussing on youth to serve as volunteers to help end-stage cancer patients, especially the elderly, who need palliative care. “The students can help in their own way.It could be as little as helping the endstage cancer patients living in their surrounding areas to reach hospital or fetching medicine from the hospital and deliver to them.Those interested about serving these patients can undergo training at the Kidwai hospital” said Dr Linge Gowda, HOD, Palliative Medicine, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology.The theme for this year is ‘many diseases, many lives, many voices-palliative care for non communicable conditions’.The theme will focus on how people living with conditions which are not infectious and can benefit from palliative care.The Amritha Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) will organise various programmes in connection with World Palliative Care Day on Saturday. Hibi Eden MLA will inaugurate the function to be held at Amritheswari Hall.Prof. John Kurakar
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