Cancer is one of the deadly diseases in the world today and
till date it is hard to find a perfect cure for the same. From newborn kids to
aged adults, it is spreading in the society at a very fast pace. It is our duty
to provide proper care and love to them and make the process of their
treatments as easy as possible.
Punjab Government is now taking a step ahead to offer
palliative care to the cancer patients in the state. They have already been
trying their best to provide the best facilities to the citizens in the town to
dedicate the cancer at as early stage as possible. Appreciable treatment
facilities are also available at some of the best hospitals in and around the
state for treatment of cancer. But now they are focusing on another level, i.e.
on offering the best care to the patients.
A pilot project has been going on since an year in Patiala
with the aim to offer a great palliative care programme. The Department of
Health and Family Welfare had launched this programme and around 479 patients
have already availed the relief offered under this Pallative Care Programme.
The response from this pilot project has been very positive and the patients
have also been responding back to the same, therefore, the state government is
now making arrangements to expand it to all other parts of Punjab.
The Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital was established in Sangrur
with the help of Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai. The TMC was requested to support
this programme so that the cancer patients in the region can take the benefits
of the same and now with their agreement, the project will start up soon. This
kind of a programme is most helpful to those patients who are in the advanced
stage and their situation is quite critical. The main motive of this programme
is to offer the patients relief from the severe pain that they are going
through and the trauma that cancer has been causing in their lives.
To offer the patients relief from the acute pain, Morphine
was being given to the cancer patients through the block medical authorities
along with general drugs which are given for the symptomatic treatment of the
patients.
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