Palliative Care Centre – TH Karapitiya

The workshop for palliative care training in Bhutan was facilitated by a team of three doctors and one nurse from the National Cancer Centre Singapore, a senior nurse palliative care practitioner from India and observed by the Executive Director of the Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network (APHN).

We have received a follow up from an article posted in March 2020 on the development of the Palliative Care Center in Karapitiya. This is the first Palliative Care Center in Sri Lanka was opened at Karapitiya Teaching Hospital on 13 June 2020 by Consultant Oncology Surgeon Dr. Krishantha Perera.