Why palliative care ?

A desperate need

According to the National Cancer Registry Programme of the Indian Council of Medical Research, there are:

2 to 2.5 million cancer patients in the country at any given time
Less than half percent have access to palliative care treatment
Seven hundred thousand to nine hundred thousand new cancer cases are detected every year
70 percent of the cancer patients in India require palliative care as a majority of the cases are diagnosed at an advanced stage, resulting in poor survival and high mortality.

There is a desperate need to broaden awareness about palliative care and extend its reach. With palliative care not yet forming part of medical education, there is also a need to educate and empower medical personnel in this compassionate yet demanding task.

We have been making concerted efforts to not only care for patients but also to spread the knowledge by informing and training professionals and others in palliative care.

Important palliative institutions in and outside India