Bangalore Hospice Trust - Karunashraya

The Bangalore Hospice Trust (BHT), Karunashraya, meaning an 'Abode of Compassion' was founded by the Indian Cancer Society (Karnataka Chapter) and Rotary Bangalore Indiranagar to provide free professional palliative care for advanced stage cancer patients who are beyond cure. The first hospice of its genre in India to offer patients the flexibility of alternating between the hospice and their home, Karunashraya helps patients live without pain, and in dignity and peace till their journey's end.

We have a 75-bed in-patient care facility since 1999 and home care since 1995, tending to over 18,000 patients and touching the lives of their families by providing a supportive environment. We also run a nursing aides training programme. Adult women from socio-economically challenged backgrounds are selected and provided 6-month free training – both theory and practical and are given free boarding and lodging facilities, thereby addressing the twin objective of empowering these women to earn their livelihood and also filling a much-wanted social need for trained Nursing Aid to care for the ill at their home. On completion of the course some of these girls are absorbed into the hospice while others are sent into the community to work as home nurses.

Our holistic team of Doctors, Nurses, Counsellors, Physiotherapists and Health Assistants provide the best quality of life for our patients.