Clearing House Program Now Closed

Oxford Textbook Thank you for your interest in this program. We have distributed all the copies of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine and we are unable to ship any more. Sorry for any inconveniences. The IAHPC Team

The Clearing House Program was designed to help programs and individuals who are interested in receiving medical journals & publications  that match with donors in developed countries.

Our Clearing House Program has been a success!

In the past two years we have sent more than 4,500 lbs. of palliative care journals and books to more than 250 programs in 27 developing countries, including Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Croatia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Jamaica, Latvia, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Uganda, Ukraine, Venezuela, Vietnam and Zimbabwe!

The IAHPC would like to thank all of the generous donors to this program.
We could not have done it without you!

Clearinghouse Mailbag

Message:

Dear IAHPC and Liliana:
I would like to thank you for the valuable bibliographic material you kindly send to the Palliative Care program at the National Cancer Institute in in Guatemala. Our Palliative Care Unit is only one year young, and has faced the same difficulties of all the "lacks of" that are common in underdeveloped countries. The books and magazines you've sent have been of great benefit to our team, and I'm sure this will be reflected in our patients care. Thanks for all the help and support we've received from IAHPC through you since the first letter I wrote you asking for information!!!

My best regards,

Dra. Eva Duarte, MD MA
Palliative Care Unit
Instituto de Cancerologia INCAN
Guatemala

Message:

Dear IAHPC,

Thank you so much for the journals and books you have sent for our Palliative Care Library. The journals are especially appreciated since we travel long distances to see patients and the articles in the journals make the miles fly by as well as educating us!

Dr. Carla Simmons
Kitovu Mobile Home Care, Uganda

Message:
I wanted to say thanks for the magazines and books that were sent to me from IAHPC as part of your in house clearing program. They were a very thoughtful collection. We particularly enjoyed and have used suggestions from the book on adult training. The book on HIV in women was also useful. Being a Paediatrician, I don’t know as much as I should about adult HIV and have forgotten a lot of my undergraduate Gynecology training. I often get asked questions by mothers of my patients: so the book is most useful. The pain articles were also interesting and will come in handy when I start my formal training.

Regards,
*Dr Michelle Meiring*
Director/Paediatrician
Bigshoes Foundation (formerly CHOMP)
South Africa

Message:
On behave of the Kenyatta National Hospital palliative care unit/Team I wish to say a big Thank You for the donation from your Clearing House Program.
The books, especially "The Textbook of Palliative medicine "will be very helpful to the under graduate students who we have been allowed to give lectures on Palliative Care.
Your continued support is highly appreciated.

Kind Regards
Esther Munyoro

Message:
Liliana De Lima
Executive Director
IAHPC:

Thank you so very much for the gift of recent journals and publications on hospice and palliative care IAHPC sent to my institution. These were very timely as we now embark on our comprehensive oncology program. The materials will be of immense benefit to faculty, staff and trainees here.

My sincere appreciation and gratitude to you and the organization and thank you again for the wonderful work in palliative care you are championing worldwide.

Dr. Andrew Amata
Chair, Department of Anesthesia
Aga Khan University & Hospitals
Nairobi, Kenya

Message:
Dear Liliana,
I would like to acknowledge the receipt of the book, Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine. The palliative care team of MNJ Institute of
Oncology and Regional Cancer Center, Hyderabad, greatly appreciates the work you are doing and would like to thank the IAHPC and you for the support extended.

Thank you,

Gayatri Palat, MD
Palliative Care Program
MNH Institute of Oncology and Regional Cancer Center
Hyderabrad, India

Message:
Thank you for the copies of journals and publications that IAHPC have donated to us.
It will be added to our libary resources for our staff and volunteers references.

Dr T. Devaraj
National Cancer Society of Malaysia, Penang Branch

Dear Ms. De Lima:
Thank you very much for your recent donation of journals and publications to our department. This will undoubtedly be of much benefit to our faculty.

With kind regards,

Professor Pesach Shvartzman
The Negev Pain and Palliative Medicine Unit
Ben Gurion University
Beer-Sheeva, Israel

September 21st, 2006

Dear IAHPC:
Yesterday we received your donation of recent pain and palliative care treatment literature. Many thanks for the copies of the journals, copies of publications and monographs. I am continuing my struggle for finding consensus based treatment recommendations and the recent literature will be helpful.

Dr. Anica Jusic
President Croatian Association for Hospice and Palliative Care
Zagrev, Croatia

August 27, 2006

Dear Ms. Liliana:
Thank you very much for the books and journals. These are always very useful for our unit staff to prepare lectures and organize seminars. Special literature, especially in palliative care is quite difficult to get in Latvia. Therefore, we start with the materials which we can get, turn them into lectures, and afterwards compile as a teaching material in booklets. This is a very valuable thing and we highly appreaciate IAHPC's assistance to help us develop palliative care in Latvia.

Dr. Vilnis Sosares
Head of PC Unit
Latvian Oncology Center
Riga, Latvia

Message:
Dear Ms. de Lima,

Thank you very much for the journals that you sent us. It means a great deal to get new information and researches in palliative care.

More power to the IAHPC!

Dr. Rhodora Ocampo
Director
Madre de Amor Hospice Foundation
The Philippines

Message: Dear Liliana
Yesterday I received in the Post Office, the journals and publications that you sent me, as part of the Clearing House Program. I will send them to a small Pallitive Care Unit, located in the extreme south of Brazil near the border with Uruguay, called Pelotas. This unit is only 18 months old, and has treated 150 advanced cancer patients. Medical students of preclinical years are volunteer in this unit, and it has been a great sucess among them. Before sending them the doantion I shall have stamped in each one of them, the word DONATED BY INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE (Houston, US).

Thank you for the wonderfull gift.

Saludos
Marco Tullio

Message:
Thank you so much for sending us a copy of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine. Our nursing staff are delighted to have such a useful book in our library.

Thank you for thinking of us, your support is very much appreciated.

Best wishes,

The Hospice Staff
Grahamstown Hospice
Grahamstown, South Africa

Message:
We would like to thank you for sending us the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine. We are looking forward to receiving other publications as well as explore possibilities of further collaboration in palliative care for our patients.

Yours sincerely,

Mohammad Ali Mohagheghi, MD
Director
Cancer Research Center
Cancer Institute of Iran

Message:
Dear Liliana De Lima,
You can't imagine my feeling after receiving the "Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine".
As I am the first physician working full time in this field in Iran, your support give me really a positive energy.

Thanks a lot again and again.

Best regards,
Dr. Mamak Tahmasebi
Tehran

Message:
I am writing to express our sincere appreciation for a copy of the "Oxford Textbook of Palliative Care". Thanks too for helping to spread the philosophy of palliative care across the world. We rae also grateful for the free 1 year membership to the IAHPC. We are looking forward to working with you in spreading Palliative Care across Guyana and help is access to drugs for control of severe pain in Guyana.

Dr Moses Bateganya
Director Care and Treatment
Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center-Guyana
Guyana

Message:
I would like to thank you very much for donating us a copy of the 2nd.
Ed. of Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine. It is really very very useful.
All the best for the coming 2006 year,

Best greetings,

Aleksandra Kotlinska-Lemieszek
Hospice Palium
Poznan, Poland

Message:
My name is Sheree Donaldson, I'm a Peace Corps volunteer working the "Solaris" - Hospice, in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan. We are currently receiving materials through your Clearing house program. We can't thank you enough. With the help of these materials we want to create a course in hospice and palliative care at the state medical college.
Thanks.

Best regards,
Sheree

Message:
Many thanks indeed for the copy of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine and other publications you sent as part of the IAHPC Clearing House Program, We are delighted to receive them and we will make sure that the material is readily available to our students and academic and clinical staff.

Yours truly,
John D. Vince
Professor Child Health
University of Papua New Guinea
School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Message:
I was delighted to receive the Oxford Textbook yesterday which you sent in February.
God bless you for your thinking of us and your generosity.
I am giving this copy to Little Hospice Hoima who opened their first own building last Tuesday. Many of our trainees in palliative medicine have placements in LHH because they are doing a lot of community work for us there and assisting many patients and families who are identified by their trained village vigilantes.

So thank you so much.
Anne

Dr. Anne Merriman, MBE, FRCP,
Director of Policy and International Programmes,
Vice Chair, African Palliative Care Association

Hospice Africa,
POBox 7757, Kampala,
UGANDA
Website: www.hospiceafrica.or.ug

Message:
Today, very appropriately on the eve of the World Day of Palliative Care, I received the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine that you sent in March. I hope that you have not thought us rude for not thanking you earlier. It has taken the book a little while to get here to the island, but we are very grateful.

It has taken quite a while to become a legal Charity here in Greece and we are just going through the final phases now and hope to have our official Charity status by Christmas.

The need here is very great for cancer support and palliative care. There have been many people dying here supported by their families but in great pain and with no intelligent information as regards their disease.  At present there is no Hospice in Athens and the knowledge of Palliative Care in this part of Greece is very limited.

We have to be very sensitive here in a small closed Orthodox Community to be seeing to be supporting the families, rather than imposing western ideas, particularly in an area where people are sometimes not aware that they have cancer and the word is not often used.  We have the blessing of the Priests which is enormously important and the support of many Greek families.

I will attach our Charter, as you can see it is simple and we have to start in a small way.  It is costing us 1,000 euros to become a legal Charity and we are still in the middle of raising this. Once we are legal we would very much like to become a member of IAHPC. 

Thank you again very much for the Textbook.

With very best wishes
Anne Cragoe
Greece

Message:
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your clearing house program donations to us here in Jamaica.

I realize this is rather late in coming but with Hurricane Ivan doing great damage to our facility last Sept. I left many things undone as we rebuilt and recovered.

Our desire to provide quality care for those in need here in the rural areas of Manchester is greatly aided by the resources you have sent to us. Our intention is to see that they are put to the best use possible.

Thank you for your tireless effort to establish quality hospice and palliative care around the world.

Sincerely,
Dr. Andrew McDonald
Jamaica

Message:
On behalf of Unidad de Medicina del Dolor y Paliativa - Instituto
Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, we would like
to thank the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care
for their kind donation (books and journals), that will form part of our
library.

Dr. Argelina Lara
Palliative Care Program
Instituto Nacional de la Nutricion
Mexico City, Mexico

Message:
I have received the second edition of the Oxford Palliative Medicine book. Thank you very much because it will be of much utility to us.

Dr. Diego Martinez
Ecuador

Message:
I apologize for not communicating with you sooner due to my overwhelmed administrative responsabilities in the hospital and a hectic schedule  with my patients. However, I wanted to express my deepest gratitude for your kindness and consideration.

Four weeks ago I received the courtesy copy of the Second Edition of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine as part of your Clearing House Program, which I consider the most comprehensive edition of studies in palliative medicine and palliative care and a valuable learning tool. I can not thank you enough for facilitating this extraordinary edition to us, which, as you are aware, it is not available in my country.

My medical assistants and nurse practitioner are very impressed with it and wanted me to extend their gratitude to you as well. Because of your kindness, they are also benefiting by improving their professional growth in the field of palliative medicine which will be reflected in the quality of services to our patients.

If I can contribute in any way to the association or to the developing of hospices in Latin America, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Respectfully yours,

Fernando A. Calderon-Higginson, M.D.
Head, Service of Clinical Oncology
Department of Medicine
Naval Medical Centre
Lima - PER
Service of Clinical Oncology and Palliative Medicine in the near future.

Message:
Dear IAHPC,

I just received the box containing “Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine” second edition this afternoon.

Thank you. It is a BIG donation to our palliative care library.

Dr. Robert Chen
B.Med.Sc., MD, CCFP, DTM&H
Malaysia

Message:
Thank you very much for considering us for the clearing House Programme.
I have given out the books and believe me they are very helpful. In
fact, some of the nurses who were pursuing Diploma in Paliative care
really appreciated them. My desire is that we will have an adequate
library for our training programmes at Kisumu Hospice.

Philip Odiyo Ouma
Kisimu Hospice, Kenya

Message:
It was so thoghtful of you and IAHPC to send The Oxford Textbook of
Palliative Care. The Institution, our Staff, and above all, our
patients, will benefit greatly from this benevolent gesture.

Dr. Cherian Koshy
Regional Cancer Centre
Trivandrum, India

Message:
I want to express our gratitude for donating us the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Care. Our institution, Angel Roffo Cancer Institute, is opening this month a new library.  This book represent a recognized source of knowledge in Palliative Care and now is available for every member of our institution. Thanks again for this great contribution.

Mónica Castro MD
Translational Research Unit
Angel Roffo Cancer Institute
University of Buenos Aires
Argentina

Message:
Many thanks for your kind donation of the Second Edition of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine.

Our institute will greatly benefit from it. I have introduced palliative medicine to the second year through to the sixth year medical students.
These students come to the Chatsworth Hospice on 2-3 days a year to listen to lectures and interact with patients and go on home-based care.

Yours sincerely
Dr. Krish Nair
Chatsworth Hospice
Durban, South Africa

Message:
We would like to thank you very much for the second edition of Palliative Medicine Textbook sent to our hospice.
We were very glad to receive it yesterday.I am sure that our team will benefit a lot using it as a tool to improve our knowledge in palliative care field. Thanks a lot.
Kind regards,

Marinela Murg
Executive director
Emanuel Hospice
Oradea
Romania

Message:
We are extremely grateful for the last gift you sent to us. The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Care is definitely a treasure. We had seen it last year in London, when visiting the Dep. of Palliative Care and Policy of King's College, and felt how valuable it would be to us.
Be assured that the copy you sent will be at the library we are organising to serve the comunity and people interested in Palliative and Bereavement Care.

Yours sincerely,
Joao Paulo C Solano, MD
Federal University of Sao Paulo
Brazil.

Message:
I can't find enough words to thank you for sending the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine. It will be extremely useful for our humble organisation.
Thank you for your continuing support towards our chartiable organisation.

Warm Regards,

Mallika Tiruvadanan
Chennai, India

Message:
Thank you very much for sending us the oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine. I have seen a copy of this book at the st. Christopher's Hospice in London and I had wanted to buy a copy but it ws beyond my means.  I praise God that you have chosen us as one of your recipients and I hope that when you clear house again, that you will again consider our hospice here in the Philippines.  Again, thank you very much and may the Lord greatly bless your work!

Yours truly,
Dr. Annabelle de Guzman, FPAFP,MHA
Philippines

Message:
I would like to thank you personally and on behalf of “Contigo” for sending the Second Edition of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine, which is being consulted daily and has come as a tremendous help in our work, allowing us to have a deeper and broader knowledge of palliative and hospice care.

Sincerely,
Dr. María Pruvost

Contigo Palliative Care Program
Cordoba, Argentina

Message:
Thank you very much for the wonderful gift of a copy of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine for The St Nicholas Children’s Hospice in Bloemfontein South Africa. We are expanding our training courses in palliative care, especially in paediatric palliative care, and this textbook will be very useful and greatly used.

Kind regards
Richard Marston
Administrator
The St Nicholas Children’s Hospice
Bloemfontein, South Africa

Message:
Thank you so very much to the IAHPC for our copy of the Second Edition of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine!
What a blessing it is to have an update on the first edition which we have almost worn out with use - we were lucky enough to have more than one copy so were able to loan to other practices in the community on occasion.
We have at present a local specialist physician and a GP who are doing the Masters in PC through Wits university in SA and they, along with our multidisciplinary team, will appreciate this new resource.

Thank You

Sincerely
Kathryn Court
Director Grahamstown Hospice

Message:
Thank you very much for the parcel of books and journals.
They will be very informative and useful.
We look forward to our growing relationship in the field of Palliative Medicine

Dr Maryann Muckaden
Tata Memorial Hospital
Mumbai, India

Message:
Thank you very much for the Oxford text book of Palliative Medicine you sent us as part of your Clearing house program. We were badly in need of such an authentic text. Ours is a Palliative care unit functioning as a collaboration between a government and a Charitable organization named Pain and Palliative Care Society, Thrissur. We have a team of doctors, volunteers and nurses, most of whom had received basic training in palliative care. But we have a long way to go in the area of training and research work. Your donation will definitely help us in this endeavour. We would like to have more of such teaching/learning materials. This is also a request for more of  books/ journals etc.

Thanking you
Love and regards,
Divakaran 

Thanks for material donation

Message:

Greeting from Khon Kaen, Thailand.

Thank you very much. We really appreciated to get the copy of palliative care oxford textbook from IAHPC last week. It can be very useful in our setting about pediatric palliative care in our region.

We hope we will have an opportunity to have some materials donation from you again.

Thank you very much for support. Have a great day.

With warm regards,
Kesanee Boonyawatanangkool,
Pediatric Nursing Department, Srinagarind Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University,
Khon Kaen, Thailand

Message:
We thank you for the kind and generous support provided by IAHPC by sending us second addition of Oxford Textbook of Palliative care.
It will be of great use for our staff.

With kind regards

Sushma Bhatnagar
Associate Prof. and Head of Anaesthesiology and Pain and Palliative care at IRCH
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
New Delhi, India

Message:
I hope I find you well. Thank you very much for the books, magazines, journals etc. They have added value to our small resource area, we are actually trying to develop a resource centre. I am sure slowly we will get there.
How are you doing in your work. I wish you well.

All the very best
Eunice Garanganga
Harare, Zimbabwe

Message:
I would like to convey my sincere thanks to you and IAHPC for sending me the books, journals and other reading material from the IAHPC clearing house programme. These are indeed useful to us.

Regards

Dr Suman Bhasker
Assistant Professor [Radiotherapy]
Dr BRA IRCH, AIIMS
New Delhi-110029, INDIA

Message from: Dr. Folaju O.Oyebola
Subject: Appreciation & Request

We can not thank you enough for your laudable efforts, considering the dearth of Health information and textbooks in developing countries. Your gesture in sending us some useful texts and journals in the IAHPC Clearing House Program can not be overemphasised. Ours is a just developing set up with lots of interests and enthusiasim in the newly converts to Palliative Care Services. Needless to say that the followers are thirsty for the new knlowlegde and skills.

Your donations came at the right time.

Apart from efforts being put in place to establish Palliative Care services in this centre, no prior formal Palliative Care services exist in Ogun-State, Nigeria However this Centre has been trying its best in spite of the meager resources at its disposal in rendering voluntary services for terminally ill patients like HIV/AIDS and cancer patients.

Thanks for the encouragement.

Dr. Folaju O.Oyebola
Initiator & Chairman FMCAbeokuta Hospice and Palliative Care Serivices.
Abeokuta, Ogun-state,
Nigeria. 110001

Message:

Please accept my warm greetings and best wishes for you.

Last week we received your donation containing books, journals and educational materials on palliative care through IAHPC Clearing House Program. The materials are extremely useful and we have started a small department library with your donation. It will have free access to the doctors and nurses in our region. Many thanks… I hope you will continue this project with same enthusiasm.

Your donation has also prompted me to start an Academic Club in Palliative Care which will host regular monthly academic programs in palliative care for the medical professionals and volunteers. The program will be on every second Saturdays and will be freely accessible to all concerned. We had a trial run of the program last week and it was successful.

Once again thanking you very much for your encouragement and assistance.
I humbly request you to continue the same.

With warm regards,
Dr.Prasanth.C.V.

Medical Officer, Palliative Care Division,
Regional Cancer Centre,
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

Sincerely,
Dr. Levan Bakanidze
National Cancer Center,
Tbilisi, Georgia

Last week we received the donated books, journals and educational materials donated by IAHPC from the IAHPC Clearing House Program.
Thank you very much, the books are now available in our library for our staff, physicians and nurses.

Many, many thanks for your great help to Aastha-Hospice, I would also like to tell you that now we are starting a full time 10 bedded hospice with all facalities from this new year, earlier we had just a palliative care OPD, day care service and just 4 beds.

Thanking you again for your continued support.
Dr. Abhishek Shukla, MD
Aastha- center for Geriatric Medicine,
Palliative care Hospital & Hospice.

With best wishes.

T. Devaraj
Vice Chairman
National Cancer Society of Malaysia

Sincerely,
Marija Tasic, MSc, MD
Institute of Gerontology, Home Treatment and Care
Belgrade, Yugoslavia

Warm regards,

Margarett
Secretary to Kath Defilippi

Dr. Robert Chen
UKM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Dr. Abhishek Shukla,
Aastha Hospice, India

Thank you very much!
Irina Baicalov
Moldova

Atentamente Dra. Maria Marta Vallejos,
Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Message:
we have received the books that kindly they have sent to us. I hope to be able to follow in communication with you, you encourage our task from the beginnings. These publications allow us to continue growing in palliative care. Again, very many thanks for all the aid that is offered to us.

Kindly Dra. Maria Marta Vallejos,
Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Liliana, I consign the gratitude by Mr. Zinevsky from the Direction of Health at the Prokopjevsk. We appreciate this Award! We would like to publish the brochure about Palliative Care in Kemerovo region and international support. We want to include into this brochure the different informational materials which can help to clear the goals and values of palliative care.

Sincerely yours,
Olga Usenko, MD.

Thank you so much for the fabulous textbook which arrived in the post today.
I really appreciate it!

Fond regards

Doctor Debbie Norval
Hospice Wistwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa

Miriam Martelete, MD,
Chefe o Servico de Dor e Medicina Paliativia,
Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Message:
“Thank you so much, for the donated books which arrived today. They will be most useful to our new Resource Centre. There were several copies of the Palliative Care Handbook and on of Transitions in End of Life Care.”

Doctor Anne Merriman, MD.
Hospice Uganda, Africa

Message:
Your books and magazines arrived this week with us. During these difficult times in Zimbabwe, when we sometimes feel cut off form the real world... it was very encouraging for us to receive something from the outside world....the librarian is really excited about them...and the staff will I know enjoy them immensely. Whilst our application of Hospice and palliative care may vary from country to country. The principles are the same so the articles in these magazines will be stimulating for us all.

Many many thanks to you for your gift to us

Val Maasdorp
Community Teams Manager
Island Hospice and Bereavement Service
Harare

Message:
I was absolutely delighted to receive the journals and also have identified several articles which are of great value.
Thank you very much I do hope you will continue with the clearing house programme.

Kind regards

Karen Hinton
Highway Hospice
Durban RSA

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