Projects Overview
Myanmar
Training Period : 2013 - 2017
No. of institutions involved : 12
No. of Faculty involved : 11
No. of trainees : 28
Palliative Services expanded:
4 institutions
Bhutan
Training Period : 2018 - present
No. of institutions involved : 1
No. of Faculty involved : 6
No. of trainees : 22
Palliative Services expanded:
1 institutions
Bangladesh
Training Period : 2013 - 2018
No. of institutions involved : 18
No. of Faculty involved : 16
No. of trainees : 50
Palliative Services expanded:
8 institutions
China
Training Period : 2021 - 2022
No. of institutions involved : 22
No. of Faculty involved : 30+
No. of trainees : 102
Palliative Services expanded:
Ongoing
Sri Lanka
Training Period : 2014 - 2017
No. of institutions involved: 50
No. of Faculty involved: 16
No. of trainees : 111
Palliative Services expanded:
12 institutions
Timor Leste
Training Period : Resuming
No. of institutions : TBC
No. of Faculty : TBC
No. of trainees : TBC
Palliative Services expanded:
TBC
India
Training Period : 2016 - present
No. of institutions involved : 48
No. of Faculty involved : 22
No. of trainees : 173
Palliative Services expanded:
36 institutions
Laos
Training Period : Resuming
No. of institutions : TBC
No. of Faculty : TBC
No. of trainees : TBC
Palliative Services expanded:
TBC
Latest Developments
3 runs of training completed. 24 cancer treatment centres started services. Ongoing 4th run of training.
Completed module 2 of 6 of Train the Master Trainer programme. On track to module 3
Completed 6 modules of Train the Master Trainer programme. Oral morphine is now available in hospitals
3 runs of training completed. 24 cancer treatment centres started services. Ongoing 4th run of training.
Future Work
Currently, despite the limitations brought by the pandemic COVID-19 virus, Lien Collaborative continues to bolster its relatively young programme in Bhutan and is conducting the feasibility of expansion into new regions, namely, Timor Lestle, Laos, and Nepal.
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Feasibility study planned in 2020 has been postponed due to Covid-19 situation
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Planned for one Histopathologist and one Lab technician attachment to SGH in Jan 2020, has been postponed due to Covid-19 situation
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Planned to partner with Khon Keen University to develop training in Laos, this has been postponed due to Covid-19 situation.
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Lien Collaborative team has been keeping an eye on development of Nepal. We have kept in touch with the doctors who had gone to Nepal in 2020 to help in developing Palliative Care services under the International Nepal Fellowship.