Palliative Care
Call us on 022-61305000 Palliative care is a branch of modern medicine that aims to provide compassionate, comprehensive care to patients facing serious illnesses, ensuring comfort, dignity, and the highest quality of life possible.
Mission statement / Departmental philosophy: To provide symptom relief, dignity and support to patients and their families who face serious illnesses, at all times during their treatment journey.
About Us
The state-of-the-art Palliative Care Department at Sir HN Reliance Foundation aims is to provide compassionate, comprehensive care to patients facing serious illnesses, ensuring comfort, dignity, and the highest quality of life possible.
It is led by a specialist with Dual Expertise: Chronic pain medicine and Palliative medicine which positions the institution at the top of the corporate medical sector offering comprehensive care to all people and families who approach it for medical help.
For instance, although less than 2% of the people who have advanced cancer in India have access to palliative care. Our department caters to those who attend oncology and non-oncology departments to make sure they have access and opportunity to achieve the best quality of life.
Services
List of services offered by the department:
Diagnostic tests and procedures
Treatments and therapies for pain
Treatment strategies in palliative care
Any pain lasting more than 3 months is considered chronic pain
- Chronic spinal pain
- Chronic headaches
- Chronic pain in children
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic abdominal pain
- Chronic pelvic pain
- Chronic widespread pain, like Fibromyalgia
- Pain due to serious illness:
- Cancer pain
- Post stroke pain
- Pain in people with Chronic kidney disease and dialysis
- Pain in people with liver disease
- Pain in people with vascular disease
- Pain in people with rheumatological conditions
- Pain in special populations like Children and Elderly
- Other symptoms:
- Breathlessness in cancer
- Nausea, vomiting and other symptoms in palliative care
- Orphan symptoms like hiccups, itching etc in palliative care
- Care of caregivers in families whose relatives are facing diseases
Dr. Mahesh Menon
Lead Pain and Palliative Care
- University First Rank, MD Anesthesiology
- Fellowship in Pain management (Singapore General hospital) in 2011
- First Indian doctor to be awarded European Diploma in Pain medicine (European pain federation)
- Post graduate Diploma in Medical Law and Ethics (PGDMLE), National Law school of India University, Bengaluru.
- Has International presentations and publications in Chronic pain and Palliative medicine.
Call us on 022-61305000 
