Palliative Care – What’s That?

Palliative Care – What’s That?

ByPT Reporter

Often it is believed that palliative care is meant for cancer patients approaching the end of life, when treatment is no longer possible. This is untrue. Explained simply, Palliative Care covers all serious health related suffering due to severe illnesses like cancer, kidney failure, chronic lung disease, heart disease, liver failure etc. It also includes…

Palliative Care By Palcare

Palliative Care By Palcare

ByPT Reporter

Parel-based Palcare is a recently established Palliative Care center in Mumbai that treats people with terminal illness, primarily cancer, set up by Pheroza Bilimoria in December 2015, with help from the Tata Trusts and industrialist Anand Mahindra. Palcare, which comprises a team of fifteen, including doctors and nurses, and is currently treating two hundred and…