HOSPICE CONCEPT

Hospices provide palliative care to terminally ill patients. They aim to improve quality of life rather than extending it at all costs, and offer personal and caring service to both patients and their loved ones.
Dedicated volunteers, social workers, spiritual advisers and nurses assist doctors in providing medical and holistic care to terminally ill cancer patients. All facets of the patient's life - the physical, social, emotional and spiritual - are considered to be of the utmost importance. Trained in patient-centred terminal care techniques, staff and volunteers understand that each patient and his needs are unique.

Hospices help patients adjust to the many challenges and losses they face in the terminal phases of cancer. They provide ways to control pain and other symptoms of the disease, and offer the possibility of a dignified death with minimal distress. After death, they extend their loving care to family and friends of the patient during bereavement.

Ganga Prem Hospice pledges to provide services free of charge to any terminally ill cancer patient regardless of age, race, religion or financial status.