Get-together on Palliative Care Day

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: While people all over the world will be observing World Palliative Care Day on October 8, in the city, Pallium India, together with District Panchayat, National Rural Health Mission and Kudumbashree, is organising a unique get-together - ‘Snehasanthwana Sangamam-2011’ for patients under palliative care in and around Thiruvananthapuam, particularly those who are bed-bound round the year.  It is hoped that the event will give patients and people from the community the opportunity to interact, empathise and join hands to further the cause of palliative care.  There will be a discussion with officials from the Kerala Social Security Mission on the different schemes and benefits that the patients can avail of. Volunteer artistes will come together to sing to celebrate ‘Voices for Hospices’, followed by a magic show to entertain the audience. The patients, along with their families, will be then taken on an outing to the Museum. Snehasanthwana Sangamam-2011 will be held at Youth Centre, Salvation Army , Kowdiar, between 9 am to 5 pm on Saturday.