Palliative care activities include daily outpatient clinic, in-patient services and consultation liaison for in-patients of other departments, specialised day-care, home based palliative care, respite palliative care, tele-palliative care and integration with interventional pain management. With these services, we care for about 120-150 patients per day.
Out patient service: After proper triaging, physical symptom management is done by doctors with pharmacological tailoring. Psycho-social and socio-economic status evaluation and counselling is done by counsellors and social workers.
In-patient service: Proper nursing care with empowering of caregivers is main activities. Goal is to prepare patient and caregivers for future.
Day care service: Intractable symptom relief, psychological counselling and respite care are the main activities.
Home care service: The service catering to the needs of non-ambulatory, end stage cancer patients within a radius of 70 kilometres from the Institute. At least 10 cancer patients are visited on daily basis. A total of approximately 160 patients are always onboard in home care service. The home visits offer family counselling, social counselling, financial rehabilitation apart from the psycho-socio-spiritual care of the patient. It also helps to empower the caregivers to take care of the patient at the time of crisis.
Tele-Palliative care: Regular Tele-consultation services for distant patients available. Th unit also associated with “SAATH-SAATH National Palliative Care Helpline” for the patients of entire North-East India.
