Project Hamrahi

Fellow travellers

Project Hamrahi, a collaboration with Pallium India, seeks to establish links between Australian and New Zealand palliative care clinicians and Indian doctors and nurses who are setting up new services. The chairman and founder of Pallium India is Professor MR Rajagopal, one of the key pioneers of palliative care in India, who was in Australia last year to promote the film “Hippocratic”. Project Hamrahi aims to support the development of fledgling palliative care services in India, and the individuals who are working to establish these services. 

Since 2010, APLI has supported approximately 30 outreach visits to different parts of Asia and the developing world to increase the awareness of palliative care and to facilitate the transfer of information to improve the provision of palliative care. 

With your donations and membership fees, we are able to support many of the mentors' travel costs – particularly nurses and other allied health professionals who don’t have access to the professional development funding available to doctors - to support them in the work that is being done to develop and foster links between palliative care providers and organisations in Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region. 

If you are interested in participating in Project Hamrahi, please contact Odette Spruyt who is the Project Hamrahi coordinator at hamrahi@apli.net.au