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Extending care: Adyar Cancer Institute chairman V.Shantha inaugurates new facilities at Karunasagar, a palliative care and hospice care centre near Porur, on Thursday. — CHENNAI: The need for institutions offering palliative care is compelling and real, according to V. Shantha, chairperson, Adyar Cancer Institute. This is particularly so in a country like India where many are denied even minimum care due to poverty, she said on Thursday. Speaking at the inaugural of the phase II and an outpatient ward for palliative care at Karunasagar, a palliative care and hospice care centre at Kolathuvanchery in Paraniputhur near Porur, Dr. Shantha said that palliative care was not just about taking care of those with cancer but included other areas as well. She said that hospices were not homes for the terminally ill but institutions meant for providing continuing supportive care. Pain and palliative care physician Republica Sridhar said that two non-governmental organisations, Little Drops and RMD Pain Palliative Care Trust, jointly operated Karunasagar. Selvaraj Bovas, founder trustee of Little Drops, said the organisation started off as a home for elders and destitute in 1993. In 2008 they joined hands with RMD and started the palliative care centre and hospice. Karunasagar provides care for those in an advanced stage of cancer, COPD and have chronic illnesses or disability. It is being supported by donations and the treatment and stay is provided free of cost. An inmate D.Sundarraj said how he was rehabilitated. A retired school teacher battling cancer he found a second home at Karunasagar. “I have no one to take care of me. My wife is no more. I am happy that I am alive and there are friends here to take care of me.” K.Selvaraj, a farmer, who lost the ability to walk due to rheumatic arthritis and diabetes and moves around on his wheelchair, said: “My life should serve as an example to others. They must not live like I did. Under the influence of alcohol I lost everything I had,” he said. “I took up tailoring and worked for about 16 years but when my condition worsened I came to this institution, which has been taking care of my needs for the past few months,” he said.
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