World Day hospice and palliative care (World Hospice and Palliative Care Day) is celebrated every year on the second Saturday of October. It is organized by the worldwide palliative care Alliance that includes national and regional organizations that support the development of hospice and palliative care worldwide.
In 2016, the world day of hospices and palliative care falls on October 8.
The purpose of celebrating this day is to increase the global awareness about issues of palliative care and hospices, assisting in creating the conditions for people to be able to Express their views about the issue; increase understanding of the medical, social, practical and spiritual needs of people with incurable diseases and their family members; facilitating the establishment and development of a system area network palliative care institutions as well as charities and other social organizations, is able to maintain and develop the movement of hospice and palliative care.
International network of pediatric palliative care offered to celebrate also in October, the Day of palliative care for children, for the first time this happened October 2 of last year the global campaign "HATS ON 4 CPC" - "Put on a hat for children's palliative care"
As a separate branch of medicine, the world health organization (who) has introduced palliative care in 1982. Palliative care can be tailored to the needs and consent of the individual patient at home – specialized mobile teams in special hospitals hospices or palliative care departments in the clinic (as Advisory service) or in various medical institutions of all forms of ownership using different organizational forms of medical care, including in day hospital and so on.
Therefore, the WHO recognizes that each country must establish the appropriate services to meet medical and social needs of palliative patients.
Ivano-Frankivsk regional clinical palliative care centre conducts various activities and events on world palliative care day, usually during October – November. This is done according to the projects of the Charity Foundation for terminally ill patients "Mother Teresa" and with the support of International Fund "Renaissance".
