While we may refer to end-of-life care as hospice in the US, in India it is called palliative care. Medical treatment and emotional support for patients with life-limiting illnesses is almost unheard-of in India, and EHA is doing its best to meet the needs around them.

The palliative care teams go where others will not, giving needed pain medication, dressing wounds, educating family members, and helping to ease patients on their way to “a good death.”