By Chuck Russell | Communications
The compassion of the home visit teams is so evident in the social worker’s eyes and gentle touch as she talks with a patient and his family.
From a grassroots initiative to a successful approach to providing home-based palliative care to cancer patients, and their families, the Hyderabad Centre for Palliative Care now has five specialized teams that visit patients in their homes extending the outreach of palliative care to those receiving treatment for cancer.
It’s an initiative that Two Worlds Cancer has supported from its infancy. The teams – a doctor, nurse and social worker– visit patients and their families, four or five a day, six days a week providing urgently needed care at home. Today two of those vans provide specialized care for children living with cancer.
The care is provided free of charge to families. The impact is very real in a country where a cancer diagnosis often comes when the cancer is severely advanced. It is care that means patients do not suffer alone at home with pain and other symptoms. And it provides emotional support to the families too.
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