World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2017

“Death belongs to life as birth does

The walk is in the raising of the

foot as in the laying of it down” 

― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, a unified day of action to celebrate and support hospice and palliative care around the world will be celebrated on Saturday 14th October. 

The theme is Universal Health Coverage and Palliative Care – Don't leave those suffering behind. 

We are celebrating this day in Bangladesh with events at many of the hospitals where we work, including:

Dhaka Shishu Hospital- Awareness event in the Conference Hall at 9:30am

Dhaka Medical College Hospital-Share your wishes on the Before I Die Boards from 9am-2pm.

BSMMU-Awareness event in A Block Auditorium at 9am

Rally and Human Chain at the Press Club, at 11am-Human Chain, 12pm- Press Conference

Here is a link to the article which World Child Cancer has published for the day.