Our eight palliative care themed workshops that feature an international faculty of facilitators run annually and attract healthcare professionals from across the nation and neighbouring countries alike.
The workshops provided are:
- Palliative Care Nursing
- Communication Skills
- Ethics
- Suffering & Hope
- Paediatric Palliative Care
- Pain & Symptom Management
- Grief & Bereavement Care
- Foundation Workshop (offering a general overview on palliative care).
Further details of each workshop can be found online.
Besides our workshops, Hospis Malaysia also provides training, support and attachment programs in palliative care for medical professionals across Asia and the region.
The Kingdom of Thailand has in recent years become a country in “transition from a nation of developing status, to one of international standing” (Discover Thailand) in many areas. Up until recently, palliative care has been ‘provided by a small number of dedicated individuals in the country’ (ehospice, 2013) and most of the palliative care services are carried out in hospital type settings.
In 2013, Thailand requested for and received 45 million Baht (almost $1.5 million) worth of funding from the Thai Health Promotion Foundation to develop palliative care in the country (ehospice, 2013). The funding received will be channelled to seven projects aimed at promoting and delivering palliative care in Thailand.
One of the seven projects: ‘Conducting Training of Nurses in Palliative Care’ saw Associate Professor Dr Srivieng Pairojkul, president of the Thai Palliative Care Society and a group of nurses visit Hospis Malaysia for an educational tour on community palliative care.
Dr Pairojkul plans to use Hospis Malaysia’s standards of services as one of the role models to emulate back in Thailand.
Read more about the work of Hospis Malaysia and the Thai Palliative Society online.
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