Members agreed that addressing these barriers successfully required concerted rather than singular efforts of all individuals and organizations involved in palliative care practice, hence the need for the formation of the proposed association was long overdue. Members pledged to work hard to bring this into fruition despite earlier failed attempts. 

  1. Next steps
    • Organizational profiling
    • Development of a constitution
    • General Registration Issues
    • Planning of world hospice day celebration.

      The meeting concluded with a decision by persons present to invite all other known 
      groups and practitioners interested in the above cause on board.

      Objectives of GPCA:

1.      Increase Awareness, Knowledge and skills related to hospice palliative care through education.
2.      To be a forum for the development of National standards in hospice palliative care practice.
3.      Advocacy for improved palliative care in relation to policy, resource allocation and support for caregivers.
4.      A forum for sourcing funds to promote palliative care practice in Ghana.


  1. Progress
By 9th August, 2006 a draft constitution was presented for additions and subtractions.

The registration of GPCA was then set into motion to be followed up by Ms. Aba Folson of Nyaniba Health Care. 
There was also profile compilations of the various organizations involved in the formation of GPCA.
Planning the world hospice day, some suggested activities for the celebration were; a float, distribution of hand bills, radio programs, documentaries to create awareness and a palliative care community outreach.

Unfortunately, except for the last activity the others couldn’t be carried through because all the funding we had was $ 100.

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