Archive · 17 Jan 2026
Maharashtra to establish palliative care centers in every district
The Maharashtra state health department is planning to set up special care centers in every district to help people with serious and long-term illnesses.
These centers will not only provide medical treatment but also help manage pain, offer emotional support, and improve the quality of life for patients.
The care teams will include doctors, nurses, and counsellors who will provide support to both patients and their families.
For those who cannot visit the centers, home-based care services will also be available.
This initiative aims to reduce suffering, improve well-being, and ease the burden on families.
Maharashtra plans to establish palliative care centers in every district to support patients with chronic and incurable diseases.
The centers will provide medical treatment, pain relief, psychological support, and a dignified quality of life to patients.
Services will include counselling, nutritional guidance, and emotional support for both patients and their families.
Each center will have a trained team of doctors, nurses, counsellors, and support staff to address physical, emotional, social, and spiritual symptoms.
Home-based palliative care services will be provided for patients unable to visit hospitals or centers.
- Who
- Maharashtra state health department
- What
- Plans to establish palliative care centers in every district
- When
- Proposal currently under preparation
- Where
- Every district in Maharashtra
- Why
- To provide medical treatment, pain relief, psychological support, and a dignified quality of life to patients with chronic and incurable diseases
- Initiative
- Palliative care centers in every district
- Target Patients
- Chronic and incurable disease patients
- Services
- Medical treatment, pain relief, psychological support
- Care Teams
- Doctors, nurses, counsellors, support staff
- Home-Based Care
- Available for patients unable to visit centers
- Benefits
- Improved quality of life, reduced suffering, emotional and financial support for families