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Health Minister Ma. Subramanian connected Wednesday inaugurated a 180-bedded Centre for Hospice Care for terminally-ill crab patients successful Tambaram. The centre volition relation nether the Madras Medical College.
The Minister said that the gathering was primitively constructed during COVID-19 pandemic arsenic an isolation ward for planetary aerial passengers.
It has present been repurposed and opened arsenic a Centre for Hospice Care astatine a outgo of ₹30.16 crore. The centre has facilities to supply attraction for 300 to 400 crab patients each year.
The installation includes an outpatient department, 16-bed Intensive Care Unit, 134 wide ward beds, and 30 wage ward beds. Mr. Subramanian said it has been established to supply supportive and palliative care.
He added that akin facilities existed successful a fewer backstage hospitals successful the country, portion nary different State authorities oregon Union authorities aesculapian instauration had specified a facility.
It would supply end-of-life care, symptom management, counselling, and psychosocial enactment for patients. Funds to the tune of ₹7.44 crore person been allocated annually for attraction and operational expenses for the facility.
