Indian healthcare has serious dearth of facilities which can offer Palliative care to the needy, especially in tier-two and lower areas of the country. Pain and  suffering due to non-communicable diseases, especially Cancer and other end of life conditions is on sky rocketing in India. The people in remote places cannot afford to reach out to the metropolitan cities for palliative care. The fact that there is no insurance coverage for palliative care adds mystery to the situation. Out of pocket expense for palliative care becomes a great burden for the families and they would not consider it a viable option. The pain in extreme suffering with pain will be left to live with that or left unattended. Psychological frustration and the feeling of being treated without respect and human dignity adds mental agony to the already dying.

Pain management and palliative care, if offered at the right time, can relieve the patient of suffering. This might even lead to longer days of productive and joyful days. Relief from pain can help one to accept fatal diseases with hope and mental peace. The mental burden of remaining silent witnesses to the suffering of the close relative will be removed from the family members by appropriate palliative care.

The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India constituted an expert group on Palliative care which submitted its report ‘Proposal of Strategies for Palliative Care in India’ in November, 2012. On the basis of the Report, an EPC note for 12th Five Year Plan was formulated. No separate budget is allocated for the implementation of National Palliative Care Program. However, the state government of Telangana has developed a robust Palliative care program and network which was applauded by the WHO. Andhra Pradesh has not ventured into palliative care as a state program, neither has dedicated budget for the same. But the need is so much that people feel that there is no solution to this.

The need felt by St.Mary’s hospital, Bhimavaram, which is in healthcare for more than seven decades, to meet this unmet need of the community in Bhimavaram, is getting translated into the form of a Palliative care centre. We named the project as St.Mary’s Palliative Care Centre.

St. Mary’s Palliative care requests your valuable support by funding the project with the best
possible resources in cash or kind. We approach you with the hope that your donations will help in brining comfort and solace to hundreds of people who require it. The beneficiary details and the fund utilization details will be shared with you as required, subject to confidentiality of medical reports.

Contributing to a noble cause of alleviating pain at the most miserable situation of life and end of life will certainly bring blessings to all your endeavors in hundred fold, we believe. 

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