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Report 10th Congress of the EAPC
Budapest, Hungary, 7-9 June 2007
Congress feedback received by Dr. Katalin Hegedus
Letter from Penka Kolchakova:
'I am writing to you with great pleasure. It was a great Congress. You have done a great work and it was worthy. Thank you very much for all you and your colleagues have done! I am sending you attached my report for the Newsletter'.
It was a great pleasure for me to participate with a poster presentation at the 10th Congress of the European Association of Palliative Care held in Budapest, Hungary 7 - 9th June this year. It was an amazing experience to be part of the palliative care society, to be one of the 2121 delegates at this great event. The opening ceremony of the Congress was a unique experience and inspired the audience to openly discuss essential matters of life, including also the process of dying. All plenary lectures were most important and useful contributing to the further development of palliative care throughout the world as well as in my own country. In the different sections I attended many bridges were built to connect diversity, which was the motto of the Congress.
The brilliant organization of the Congress made it possible to meet colleagues, friends and people involved in hospice and palliative care from all over the world, to exchange opinions on different palliative care issues, to learn more, to make plans for further projects and collaboration.
Back home I met my colleagues from the Medical College in Plovdiv, from the psychiatric society, and the Chairman of the Bulgarian Association on Palliative Care, and I conveyed the ideas and messages of the Congress.
I want to express my gratitude to the organizers of the Congress for the great work they have done and to thank OSI-EAPC for the grant I have received which enabled my participation at the Congress.
Penka Kolchakova, MD
College of Medicine at MU, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Letter from Natasa Milicevic:
'I hope you had some time for rest after all the efforts you had about Congress.
Congress was excellent one. Congratulations! Both topics and organization were excellent. Thank you for inviting me to give the presentation about CoE Rec. Anyway Rec is important document and I am sure that in next few years some countries will declare how important it was for the palliative care development. For us in Serbia it is very important. It is the only one document, at the moment, we can use as a tool for palliative care development. Once again thank you and enjoy your summer.
Natasa Milicevic, MD
Centre for palliative care and palliative medicine "BELhospice"
Belgrade, Serbia
Letter from Eduard Moskalev:
'I would like to express my thanks to you, for your support and help wich made possible for me to visit the congress in Budapest. The organization was on highest level, and I found the information useful for developing the new standarts of my work, and upgrading the palliative care in St. Petersburg. I succesfully recieved my grant, and looking forward for future partnership'.
Dr. Eduard Moskalev MD PhD,
Director
St. Petersburg Municipal Health Institution – A city Kalininsky hospice
Hospice No.4, 85, Swetlanovsky prospect, Saint Petersburg, 195269, Russia
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