Palliative care is an important part of Cancer care. The world Health Organisation (WHO) defines palliative care as an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing problems associated with this kind of life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of sufferings by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treat of pain and other problems, like physical, psychological and spiritual etc.
Our member Dr. Dinesh Chandra Goswami is working on this field and running a wellness Centre in Guwahati.