Palliative care facilities for terminally ill patients are now available for free at government hospitals in all 33 districts of Telangana, marking an important milestone.
These facilities, established by the Telangana government in collaboration with voluntary organizations, ensure that patients with end-stage diseases receive much-needed relief from symptoms, pain, and suffering, allowing them to live a better life.
Field-level healthcare workers, including Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) trained in palliative care, are also providing home-care services in addition to providing palliative care at district hospitals.
Many terminally ill patients are immobile and find it difficult to travel to the nearest government healthcare facility. As a result, trained ASHAs and palliative care workers visit them at home to provide the necessary care.
Free palliative care facilities provide end-of-life care to patients with life-limiting diseases such as cancer, as well as medical morphine for pain management. All district hospitals in the 33 districts have inpatient and outpatient palliative care services. To care for patients and day-to-day activities, each facility has a doctor, five nurses, a physiotherapist, a driver, and five non-clinical staff.
For each of the free palliative care facilities, the state government will spend between Rs 30 lakh and Rs 35 lakh. To allow healthcare workers to travel to the houses of the patients, the State government is also issuing them with mobile vans, called Mobile Home Care Units (MHCU).
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The Telangana Health minister T Harish Rao inaugurated medical equipment installed at a cost of Rs 2 crore in the NIMS hospital’s Nephrology department.
The minister stated on this occasion that Telangana is the first state to make a single-use filter dialysis system available in government hospitals, noting that the use of filters was previously limited only to corporate hospitals.
Harish Rao stated that dialysis is being provided to the poor through a single-use filter system without spending a single rupee under Arogyashri in government hospitals.
“Over 10,000 people are undergoing dialysis all over the state with the provision of bus passes, pensions and free medicines,” the minister stated.
Harish Rao went on to say that the government spends Rs 100 crore annually on dialysis through its Arogyashri scheme in order to provide corporate-style medical care to the poor, and that Rs 150 crore has already been allocated for advanced medical equipment.
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