Palliative Care seeks to improve the quality of life of people with advanced life threatening illness. It involves physical, psychosocial support to the patient and the family to cope with illness and bereavement. Every year: - ~200,000 people in Telangana & Andhra Pradesh are diagnosed with cancer -70% are diagnosed with advanced cancer and need pain relief and palliative care -Less than 1% has access to any palliative care or a pain relief program We are here to make a difference.
Palliative Care seeks to improve the quality of life of people with advanced life threatening illness. It involves physical and psychosocial support to the patient and the family to cope with illness and bereavement. Every year, about 200,000 people in Telangana &Andhra Pradesh are diagnosed to have cancer. 70% are diagnosed as having advanced cancer and need pain relief and palliative care. Less than 1% has access to palliative care or a pain relief program. We are here to make a difference.
We hope to improve the access to palliative care with all our activities for the needy: 1. Home Care- Strengthening the existing home care program and improving access by expansion of the current program with more number of vans to cover the population and area in the city of Hyderabad. 2. Hospice Care -To increase the bed strength to 50 to meet the need. 3. Pediatric palliative care program for children living with cancer and other life limiting illnesses .
In homecare program we see 12000 patient visits in a year. In hospice program we admit about 1000 adult patients and 300 children for palliative and end of life care in one year. Improve the care for patients living with terminal illnesses, access to pain relief, and better access to end of life care. Increase in number of people living with non-communicable diseases is increasing every year and we are trying to strengthen our activities to provide better care.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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