Message
from the Chair
and Executive Director
Dear Readers:
We are pleased to announce the call for nominations for seven
seats to the IAHPC Board of Directors for the term 2010-2012.
A call for nominations, criteria and information on how to
apply is included in this Newsletter. Deadline for nominations
is October 31st, 2009.
We want to take this opportunity to highlight a recent publication
called The Legal Aspects of Palliative Care which
provides critical information about legal assistance for patients
and helps them to find it. It also provides information for
legal practitioners to enhance their understanding of palliative
care so that they may extend their services to patients. The
manual was produced by the Hospice Palliative Care Association
of South Africa with the support of the Public Health Program
of the Open Society Institute and the Open Society Foundation
for South Africa.
The manual includes information, case studies, and resources
on topics, such as palliative care as a human right, ethical
concerns in palliative care, poverty, financial issues and
many others. In addition, there is guidance on how to develop
policies and laws that can improve palliative care and protect
the human rights of people with life-limiting illness. The
manual’s aim is to integrate this type of information into
the provision of high-quality palliative care and legal services.
Electronic copies of the manual and individual chapters are
available at: www.hospicepalliativecaresa.co.za/legal.html.
The manual is part of a global effort to improve access to
palliative care and pain treatment through legal resources
and to promote palliative care and pain treatment as human
rights. Additional information about this initiative can be
found in our website, including the Joint Declaration which
has been signed by hundreds of individuals and representatives
from organizations around the world. If you wish to read more
about this, or sign the Declaration, you can do so in http://www.hospicecare.com/resources/pain_pallcare_hr/
During this past month, IAHPC awarded the following Traveling
Scholarship grants:
- Ms. Elizabeth Tshbangu Mushinda, Palliative care/Nurse/Public
Health working as Palliative care Technical Advisor in RAPIDS,
from Luzaka Zambia, will attend the MDD.557 - Strategic
Change Module 3A&B at Lancaster University in the UK.
- Dr. Andrew Amata, consultant in palliative care from Georgetown
Public Hospital in Industry, Guyana, to participate in the
Children's Hospice International's 20th World Congress in
Cape Town, South Africa.
- Virginia Ann Gumley, Director of Nursing/Nursing Education
from Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital Lahore Pakistan,
to participate in the 10th Australian Palliative Care Conference
and the 8th Asia Pacific Hospice Conference in Perth, Australia.
The following Traveling Fellowship grant
was awarded:
- Philip Larkin, RN, PhD who is Associate Professor of Clinical
Nursing and Palliative Care at the School of Nursing Midwifery
and Health Systems & our Lady's Hospice, Harold's Cross,
Oughterard, Ireland. He traveled to South Africa at the
invitation of the Hospice Palliative Care Association of
South Africa.
We are also proud to announce four winners of grants awarded
through a collaborate effort between the Spanish Society of
Palliative Care (Sociedad Española de Cuidados Paliativos
– SECPAL), the Latin American Association for Palliative Care
(Asociacion Latinoamericana de Cuidados Paliativos – ALCP)
and the IAHPC. Through this program, SECPAL and IAHPC will
provide four grants to support palliative care workers in
Latin America in four areas: two in clinical, one in nursing
and one in management/administration.
The winners are:
- Dr. Vilma Tripodoro, current president of the Argentinian
Association or Palliative Care in Buenos Aires, who will
spend time in the Instituto Oncologico Catalan in Barcelona,
under Dr Josep Porta.
- Dr. Lisbeth Quesada, Chair of the Pediatric Palliative
Care Clinic, Children's National Hospital in San Jose, Costa
Rica will spend time in the Regional Palliative Care Program
in Extremadura.
- Dr. Eva Rossina Duarte, Chief of the palliative care unit
at the National Cáncer Institute in Guatemala will spend
time at the Universidad de Navarra, under Dr. Carlos Centeno
Cortes.
- Ms. Beatriz Montes De Oca, RN, director of Hospice Cristina
in Guadalajara, México, will spend time in the Hospice CUDECA
in Malaga.
Congratulations to all for receiving these grants. We will
publish their reports in future newsletters. Additional information
about the Traveling Scholarship and Fellowship Programs can
be found in our website under the Program’s tab on top.
Many thanks to our generous donors whose contributions enable
us to make these programs possible which further the development
of palliative care. Donations continue to support extraordinary
efforts by individuals in developing countries who work very
hard to promote and develop hospice and palliative care around
the globe. For additional information on how to help us, please
go to https://www.hospicecare.com/give/donate.html
Last week, Liliana participated in the 2nd Annual
International Conference organized by UCSF and Hinds Hospice
in Fresno in California. The topic of the meeting was Hospice
and Palliative Care in Developing Countries and it
provided an opportunity for speakers and participants to discuss
the issues and barriers in the development of palliative care
in countries with limited resources. Participants came from
Nepal, China, Guatemala, Ethiopia, Uganda and Russia as well
as from Canada and other cities in the USA. We wish to thank
USCF and especially Nancy Hinds, the founder and director
of Hinds Hospice, for facilitating and putting together this
wonderful meeting and for her passion to help developing countries
establish and develop hospices and palliative care.
Until next month,
Roberto Wenk, MD
Chair, Board of Directors
Liliana De Lima, MHA
Executive Director
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