I lost my mother two years ago to cancer. When she was diagnosed with stage four cancer and doctors read the verdict that it is at terminal stage, the first question I asked to Professor Dr Kamruzzaman was: Is there any hospice care in Bangladesh. He comforted me by informing about Hospice Bangladesh.
Ensuring a comfortable, dignified end
“A life well-lived deserves a good ending,” said Rifat Akhter, chairman of Aastha Hospice that has brought palliative care to the doorstep of underprivileged patients suffering from terminal diseases.
The one who can help a patient complete the last bit of journey on this earth with ease is
Hospice Bangladesh along with Aastha Foundation and Dhaka Medical College celebrated the day by introducing the global participatory public art project: ‘Before I Die’ on the Medical College campus, where people expressed their aspirations in life, something they want to fulfill before they die.
The wall is a movement that opens the conversation about death
The evolving epidemiology of life-limiting diseases across the world has created an urgent and growing need for palliative care services.
However, in a large proportion of the world there is no access to palliative care for persons with serious or terminal illness.
Palliative care is a new field in many countries, including Bangladesh. It focuses on
With an estimated 29 000 children in Bangladesh needing specialised end of life care each year, there are presently only 2 doctors consistently providing children’s palliative care in this impoverished country.
The Children’s Palliative Care Initiative Bangladesh (CPCIB) is an initiative of World Child Cancer, which aims to support the development of palliative
She spends long hours each day working at the homes of people and their families needing palliative care, and after duty she returns to her own home.
Shika’s sister, Ritu Halder, also works as a palliative home care nurse in the same organisation. Sometimes the sisters have no time for contact with each other while
After seven days’ campaign ahead of the event, the riders gathered in front of Bangladesh Medical College Hospital at 8 am on Saturday 10 October.
The Principal, Professor Taimor Nawaz, and Director, Professor Rouf Sardar, of Bangladesh Medical College, were present at the starting ceremony, along with Oncology Head, Dr Zafor Md. Masud and Ameenah
Dying with incurable illness in poverty and pain is all too common in this sub continent as well in our country. With minimal resources shortages of health workers, national health systems in a number of South Asian countries have focused primarily on preventive, curative and maternal health services. In many countries minimal or no resources
