Palliative Care
“Everyone has to die but how we die makes a big difference for us and our loved ones.” There are many painful events that the patient may go through at the time of death and these can be allayed by palliative care. The Department of Palliative Care, started on 7th of August 2006, is the only one of its kind covering the area from Borivali to Virar. This Department ensures that the patients have a good “quality of life” during their remaining days and a quiet, peaceful and pain free death in the end. Bereavement counseling helps the relatives to come to terms with the death of their loved one and get on with life.Many a times the fact is that neither patient nor the family actually knows what their illness is and what kind of complications can happen in the future. Palliative care gives them complete understanding of their disease process, prevents the preventable, controls the symptoms and gives them realistic expectations about the future. Counseling helps them to resolve their emotional issues, as terminal illness is a very intense experience to even begin to accept. Palliative care helps them to not feel lonely or abandoned.
The services include:- Palliative medical consultation
- Palliative nursing care
- Emotional and spiritual counseling
- End of life care at the time of death
- Consultation on phone in case of any emergency
- Bereavement care
- For those who are bed ridden and not able to come to the hospital due to their physical condition, we also have our home care program.
Home care program:For those who are bed ridden or incapacitated we visit them and give them care at home.
In case of any acute need we also provide free / concessional admission of the patient in the hospital.
We also provide free follow up services to the patients and their families once in a week.
“ADD LIFE TO THEIR DAYS AND NOT JUST DAYS TO THEIR LIFE”
Some remarks from our patients
“Today God came to my house…” Mohini Shetty (renal cell ca with mets)
“If you would not have come, she would have died long back…” Vinay Shetty (Mohini’s husband).
“I keep waiting when you are going to come…I don’t have anyone to talk to and I feel lonely…” Miss Evelyn Calmiano (care taker – daughter of patient).
“She was suffering so much and we were praying for some relief and then you came…” Miss Evelyn Calmiano (care taker – daughter of patient).
“She died so peacefully and it is all because of you…” Miss Evelyn Calmiano about her mother (care taker – daughter of patient).
“We have never seen any doctor who gives so much time …” Mrs Fernandes (care taker).
“Till now we are just loitering from doctor to doctor without any direction. No one told us anything about the disease…thank you…” Mr Ramesh Kothari.
TrainingWE INVITE ALL OF YOU IN THE SOCIETY TO COME FORWARD TO LEARN ABOUT PALLIATIVE CARE AND EXPERIENCE THE JOY OF BRINGING HOPE AND A SMILE IN THE LIVES OF THOSE UNFORTUNATE SOULS.
Activities/ServicesTraining of volunteers: Every Saturday 4.00 pm to 6.00 pm We also have a special 14 hour volunteer training certificate program which will teach you to provide basic nursing as well as emotional and spiritual counseling of terminally ill patients and their families. No previous qualifications are required for this training.
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