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Activities report2005 In January 2005, Dr Peter Singer, Director of the
University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, visited Mumbai where he
visited the Bhabha municipal hospital, the private Jaslok hospital, the
NGO Sahayog for adolescent girls, and the Centre for Studies in Ethics and
Rights. Dr Singer interacted with staff at both hospitals to discuss hospital
management issues including administration, budgets and resource
allocation from the bioethics point of view. At Jaslok Hospital, he met with
members of FMES and spoke on the development of bioethics in Canada and his work
on end-of-life care. At Bhabha hospital, he visited the Dilaasa programme for
women survivors of domestic violence, run by the NGO CEHAT in collaboration with
the municipal corporation. At CSER, Dr Singer met doctors, health researchers
and members of FMES to discuss bioethics as a growing discipline in India.
In March 2005, Professor Christian Harrison, senior clinical bioethicist and
Director of the Department of Bioethics at The Hospital for Sick Children in
Toronto, Canada, visited Jaslok Hospital where she visited the department of
paediatrics and also met paediatricians, paediatric nurses and others in the
department. Later, she spoke on informed consent in paediatrics care, legal
issues and other challenges for clinical bioethicists working in
paediatrics.
Meanwhile, the work for IJME's first National
Bioethics Conference is in full swing, with a total of 17 collaborating
organisations. The organising committee holds its first meeting in May
2005.
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