“Palliative Care is all about looking after people with illnesses that can not be cured, relieving their suffering and supporting them through difficult times”

The aim is to improve the Quality of Life of these persons.

This comprehensive management concept is unique because of its holistic approach trying to meet patient’s physical, psychological, social, spiritual needs. (link)

The need for organized palliative care services is enormous, particularly in resource poor settings like ours where cure is more often impossible because of late presentation and limited treatment facilities.

People are just more than bodies: People have minds, spirits, emotions making them member of the family and the community

• Physical : Pain, Breathlessness, sores, weakness, cough, vomiting, diarrhea and many more !

• Psychological : Worries, fears, sadness, anger, denial and others !

• Social: Need of the family, issues of food, work. Relationship within the family

• Spiritual: Question of meaning of life and death. Need to be at peace.

• Palliative Care is about people rather than diseases.

• Palliative Care is about living as well as dying