What is Palliative Care?

Palliative Care helps with

• Physical symptoms using Medicines and Good Nursing Care
• Psychological and Spiritual Distress by Counselling, Listening, and Prayer.
• Social Problems by Involving Families and Communities.
• This needs a Team Approach in PALLIATIVE CARE.

Who needs Palliative Care?

Palliative care can help people with a variety of illnesses which include

• Cancer
• Progressive neurological disease
• end-stage heart or kidney failure
• HIV / AIDS
• Other life-limiting illnesses

The aim in all these cases is to add life to days, not just days to live.

Palliative Care Pain control
The WHO analgesic ladder is a guide on appropriate ways to control pain. There is no need for people to live with pain. Palliative Care is the active, holistic care of patients with an advanced, progressive illness. Management of pain and other symptoms and provision of psychological, social and spiritual support is paramount. The goal of palliative care is the achievement of best Quality of Life (QOL) for patients and their families. Many aspects of palliative care are also applicable earlier in the course of illness in conjunction with other treatment.

Palliative Care is

• Relieving suffering
• Controlling Pain
• Sharing Problems
• Giving Support.

Our Palliative Care wing at MGMCRI will ease the pain of the suffering loved ones. Hospital Palliative Care Team (HPCT) at MGMCRI is a Multi-specialty team to provide Evidence-Based, individualized supportive care to patients with long-term/Advanced Illness.