On Tuesday, 3 October 2023, CanSupport held a music concert by Padma Shri awardee Shubha Mudgal to celebrate World Hospice & Palliative Care Day at Baha’I House of Worship. Shubha Mudgal was joined by other four accompanists - Aneesh Pradhan on tabla, Sudhir Nayak on harmonium, Shivangini Yeashu Yuvraj and Pooja Vazirani on tanpura.

The concert was attended by more than 450 people that included representatives from corporates, distinguished citizens from different fields, students and medical professionals and 40 cancer patients in our care.

Harmala Gupta, Founder-President of CanSupport thanked the audience and supporters for being associated with CanSupport.

The Chief Guest at the event was Dr Vinod Kumar Paul, a member of NITI Aayog where he leads the Health, Nutrition and HRD verticals. In his address he congratulated CanSupport for its brilliant work over the last 27 years and said that the way forward is to truly make palliative care part and parcel of our public health care system, which will ride on comprehensive palliative care system paradigm built on health care centres. We couldn’t agree with him more.

Some of CanSupport’s key supporters - Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd, G4S Secure Solutions India Pvt Ltd, Barco Electronic Systems Pvt Ltd, and Delhi Langar Seva Society were also recognised at the event and were presented a scroll of honor each.

Prof Manju Jain who helped CanSupport in setting up its first Outpatient clinic in East Delhi in 2013 was also honoured at the event. The East Delhi OPC is in its 10th year of service and continues to provide supportive care to those undergoing cancer treatment.

A special Souvenir and CanSupport's latest publication, a book titled 'Guidelines for Home Based Palliative Care & Outpatient Palliative Care Teams' were also released at the event.

The event was a huge success and lived up to the theme of Compassionate Communities: Together for Palliative Care by bringing people of the community together in support of palliative care. The auditorium full of people from all walks of life was a testimony to our work.

We thank each and every person who attended the event and our volunteers and staff for making this event a grand success. We also express our gratitude to Shubha Mudgal who sang compositions by Bhakti poets and mesmerised the audience with her soulful and reverberating performance.