Palliative care

World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2024: A decade of striving for compassionate care

On October 12, 2024, the global community observes World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, a unified day of action to celebrate support and promote the provision of appropriate care for people living and dying with health-related suffering

‘Ananda’ brings joy to slum children with cerebral palsy

Over the past year, 12-year-old Samia’s life has undergone a significant change. In the capital’s Korail slum, the child was born with cerebral palsy, a group of neurological disorders that appear in infancy or early childhood and permanently affect body movement and muscle coordination.

The high cost of dying

The haunting concern over the high cost of dying is as real as death itself

My Dhaka / Hospice, Palliative Care: Why you should care

Our loved ones, either in their final days or suffering from incurable diseases like cancer, kidney or liver failure, dementia, stroke, and other terminal ones, need hospice and palliative care.

Looking after the neglected

Sixty-year-old Asiya Begum, a resident of the capital’s Korail slum, lives in a tiny makeshift  room made of tin, slightly larger than the size of a grave, with no ventilation or fan. At first glance, it might look like she has been buried alive.

October 12, 2024
October 12, 2024

World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2024: A decade of striving for compassionate care

On October 12, 2024, the global community observes World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, a unified day of action to celebrate support and promote the provision of appropriate care for people living and dying with health-related suffering

June 15, 2024
June 15, 2024

‘Ananda’ brings joy to slum children with cerebral palsy

Over the past year, 12-year-old Samia’s life has undergone a significant change. In the capital’s Korail slum, the child was born with cerebral palsy, a group of neurological disorders that appear in infancy or early childhood and permanently affect body movement and muscle coordination.

February 2, 2024
February 2, 2024

The high cost of dying

The haunting concern over the high cost of dying is as real as death itself

August 28, 2023
August 28, 2023

Hospice, Palliative Care: Why you should care

Our loved ones, either in their final days or suffering from incurable diseases like cancer, kidney or liver failure, dementia, stroke, and other terminal ones, need hospice and palliative care.

October 14, 2022
October 14, 2022
October 13, 2022
October 13, 2022

Looking after the neglected

Sixty-year-old Asiya Begum, a resident of the capital’s Korail slum, lives in a tiny makeshift  room made of tin, slightly larger than the size of a grave, with no ventilation or fan. At first glance, it might look like she has been buried alive.