Although we opened this Hospice for the public on 8th of December, 1989, regular admissions were started by March, 1990 only. It was started as a 10 bedded palliative care unit served by two physicians in a honorary basis from the nearby Mercy hospital, two qualified nurses who are nuns, three nursing assistance, a dietician, a CMI Priest for coordinating public relations and fund raising activities and also providing spiritual support.

• To provide medical and nursing care to the advanced terminally ill patients.
• To offer this humanitarian services irrespective of community, caste or creed.
• To offer this service free of cost.
• To offer such patient’s tender love and special care to have a peaceful death.

• The patient is poor, cannot be adequately looked after at home and has nowhere else to go
• The patient must deemed to be beyond the stage of active treatment and declared as terminally ill by a medical expert, and it shall be approved by a doctor of Mercy hospital.
• Preference will be given to those who need urgent relief from excruciating pain.
• The patient should have some expectancy of life to benefit from palliative care.

Around 1065 patients are admitted and around 781 patients are died from here.