“You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die". The history/origins of “Hospice Palliative Care” – Dame Cecily Saunders, physician and founder of St. Christopher’s House Hospice in London, England, is credited with launching the modern hospice movement.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Dame Cecily pioneered an approach to caring for the dying that focused on symptom & pain control and not on curing the underlying terminal illness. It is with great pleasure that I would be introducing the first Palliative Workshop in association with the RGCON 2019 being held in The Crown Plaza, New Delhi Rohini Twin District Centre, Sector 10, Rohini, New Delhi | 110085 on the 9th of February from 2-5 pm in “Hall Pearl”. Palliative care emerged with the hospice movement of the…
