Palliative Care: Saath Saath Helpline
CanSupport, Cipla Palliative Care, Pallium India and eight other relief organizations have launched the SaathSaath Helpline. The Helpline is a free national service that connects caregivers, patients and healthcare providers to the nearest hospice as needed.
Highlights
- One can reach the toll-free hotline “18002027777” from Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- This helpline offers direct services to cities such as Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram and Guwahati.
- Support is provided in several preferred languages such as English, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Assamese, Marathi and Telugu.
- This helpline is a free of cost service.
- The helpline ensures that patients receive support and counselling on physical therapy, pain relief, family and nutritional counselling.
Palliative Care
It is specialized medical care for seriously ill people. This type of care focuses on relieving stress of the disease and the symptoms. The objective is to improve the quality of life of both the suffering patient as well as the family.
Who can provide Palliative care?
Palliative care is provided by a team of specially trained nurses, doctors, and other specialists who, together with the patient’s other physicians, offer an additional level of support. Palliative care is geared towards the needs of the patient, not the prognosis of the patient. It is suitable for all ages and at any stage of severe disease and can be used in conjunction with curative treatment.
