Bihar needs hospice care centre: Doctors
(WorldNews India)

PATNA: Oncologists have planned to urge the state government to consider setting up a hospice care centre in the state. Hospice care is a type of care that focuses on the palliation of a chronically ill, terminally ill or seriously ill patient`s pain and symptoms, and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs. `Around 70-80% cancer patients in the state consult doctors in the third or fourth stage. It is difficult to cure such patients. A hospice centre offers medical and palliative care when the patient nears his or her end. No such centre exists in the state as of now,` head of regional cancer centre...