Bengaluru: KC General Hospital launches five-bed palliative care unit
Bengaluru- To provide support to patients even after treatment and assist those grappling with severe pain and mental distress, a new five-bed 'Palliative Care' facility has recently been launched at the KC General Hospital in Malleswaram.
The facility has been established in collaboration with the 'Sharanam India Foundation' and in partnership with Karnataka's health systems, with the objective of improving access to palliative and end-of-life care.
Speaking to DH, Dinesh Gundu Rao, Health and Family Welfare Minister, said there were plans to extend the facility to other hospitals in the city and urged the public to make use of the service.
“We have a well-functioning unit at CV Raman General Hospital. We will next establish one at Jayanagar General Hospital and also across the state,” Rao added.
According to the DH media news report, this unit has been designed to assist patients in the advanced stages of life-threatening or severe illnesses, such as cancer and kidney failure. It will also help them manage severe pain, breathing difficulties, neurological issues, and mental health-related concerns.
Also, this unit will provide services delivered by a team of specialists, including an outpatient department, a day-care unit for pain management and personalised counselling, a fully equipped inpatient facility, and a mobile unit.
The mobile unit will provide home-based care and training to caregivers within a 5 to 8-kilometre radius of the hospital.
Palliative care services are also operational for patients at the government cancer institute, 'Kidwai'.
Medical Dialogues had recently reported that the Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao said on Thursday that the launch of an AI-enabled monitoring system will significantly boost patient safety and treatment quality under Karnataka's public-private partnership dialysis programme.
