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Celebrating Compassion and Dedication: The Palliative Care Award 2023-2024 Honors Outstanding Contributions in Palliative Care

The importance of palliative care, which focuses on alleviating suffering and providing holistic support to both patients and their families, cannot be overstated in today’s healthcare landscape. This approach emphasizes quality of life, dignity, and compassionate care for those navigating complex health challenges. By recognizing outstanding efforts in this field, the Palliative Care Award 2023-2024 […]

Spiritual Support: A Critical Component of End-of-Life Care

As humans, we often avoid the topic of death and dying, but it’s important to acknowledge that death is a natural part of the human experience. For patients facing end-of-life care, it’s essential that healthcare providers offer comprehensive support, including spiritual care. Spirituality plays an important role in many people’s lives and can be particularly […]

Bangladesh national Palliative Care Nurse Awards recognise the contribution of home care nurses

Nurses play a significant role in palliative care team. By providing expert management of pain and other symptoms combined with compassionate listening and counselling skills, a palliative care nurse promotes the highest quality of life for the patient and family. In Bangladesh, palliative care service is developing and people are accepting it gradually. There are only […]

First Farida Khanam Palliative Care Nurse Award encourages more nurses to join the field

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 […]