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18 years of service
Our vision is to reach every one of the ten million people suffering from serious health-related issues in India.
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Palliative Care Helpline
For Free Palliative Care Services including Telephonic consultation, tele-health & clinical support, please call: +91 964 588 4889 or +91 860 688 4889
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Education support to children of parents/families ravaged by chronic diseases or bed ridden circumstances cause economic and social morbidity. Pallium India extends support to the education of children of these patients and thus encourages them tohope for a better future.
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Pallium India’s food-kit program supports disease-ravaged families by providing monthly rations during our home visits. This festive season, bring a smile to our beneficiaries' faces and ease their burden.
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Making Healthcare Human
Watch Dr M R Rajagopal in conversation with Tarek El Nabli, Founder & CEO of Parentis Health, in this video produced by Masha Petrova, and directed and edited by Patrick Shen using footage from Hippocratic (kind courtesy Mike Hill and Sue Collins of Moonshine Agency, Australia.)
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Events
Training24August2022
Foundation Course in Palliative Care (FCPC) – Psychosocial Interventions (Basics) – ECHO
Training5September2022
6 weeks Certificate Course for doctors and nurses (CCPPM & CCPN) – at Trivandrum
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Our work in the context of the UN SDG
June 28, 2022
Read how Pallium India’s activities are in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to transform our world by 2030.
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‘Walk with the Weary’ now available – in both paperback & ebook formats
March 31, 2022
“Doctors should be more than body mechanics – they also have the tremendous and awesome responsibility of recognising, acknowledging and honouring the human beings that entrust their lives to them.” Dr M R Rajagopal writes in his memoir, "Walk with the Weary".
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Telehealth Consultation
June 15, 2021
Pallium India has launched a national helpline for palliative care consultation. +91 964 588 4889 / +91 860 688 4889
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Grief can be Fatal
August 4, 2022
A recent study finds a connection between bereavement and mortality risk when it involved loss of a partner, child, sibling or grandchild. This included loss by natural causes and unnatural deaths, such as suicide.
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10 day Foundation Training in Puducherry
August 3, 2022
Pallium India and Aarupadai Veedu Medical College (AVMC) Puducherry conducted a 10-day foundation training program for palliative care professionals (doctors and nurses) in Puducherry.
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Opioid Availability Workshop and other developments in Puducherry
August 1, 2022
Addressing the need for quality palliative care in Puducherry, Pallium India and Aarupadai Veedu Medical College & Hospital in association with Department of Drugs Control, Puducherry conducted an “Opioid Availability” workshop for palliative care professionals, drug vendors and pharmacists of medical institutions.
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Announcement
Pallium India in collaboration with PalliCovidKerala and Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) has started a free online training course ‘PalliCovid ECHO programme on palliative care for healthcare professionals treating people with Covid-19.’
The objective of this program is to empower healthcare professionals treating people with advanced COVID-19 to relieve the suffering of patients and families.
This program is not intended to make the participants palliative care experts; but rather to-
Empower them to manage people with advanced Covid19 with palliative care practices that are appropriate to the Indian setting.Reduce the sense of helplessness of the staff and improve their work-satisfaction and morale.Significantly lessen the burden on the health care systemClick here for Training Resources
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Bindu Nair, Trivandrum
A captivating speech by Dr.M.R.Rajagopal, chairman of Pallium India about Palliative Care motivated me to join Pallium India as a volunteer. Their volunteer training program […]
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Dr. Uma Narayan, Mumbai
How did I even make the transition from one end of the scale of being a practising gynaecologist to a Palliative Medicine doctor, at my […]
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Krishnaraj Nambiar, Trivandrum
My Extended Family – Pallium India It was payback time. I resigned my lucrative job and joined Pallium India as a volunteer as Palliative Care […]
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Marcia Glass, New Orleans
Since first being hosted in 2017 and then sponsored by Dr Rajagopal as a visiting Fulbright specialist in 2018, I have had a wonderful experience […]
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Tania, Kolkata
God gave me this opportunity to have an amazing experience and I got that during the six weeks training course in palliative nursing at Pallium […]
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Usha. K, Trivandrum
Thank you – Pallium India Let’s not take our lives for granted. Not just my brother’s, our world came crashing down when told by the […]
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Dr. Ann Broderick, Iowa City
In early 2015, I went on a home visit with the Pallium India team for the first time. My friend and colleague, Dr. Jo Eland […]
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