D. Priya Kumari

Founder

Founder of Pain Relief and Palliative Care Society, Hyderabad

D. Priya Kumari is the founder of Pain Relief and Palliative Care Society, Hyderabad (2007)[1], an Indian non-profit working on palliative & cancer care, healthcare and orphans & child care from Hyderabad.

Pain Relief and Palliative Care Society, Hyderabad

Founded in 2007 by doctors and volunteers at the MNJ Institute of Oncology & Regional Cancer Centre, the Pain Relief and Palliative Care Society has grown into one of the region's largest palliative care providers. It runs the Kumudini Devi Hospice in Kukatpally, a 10-van home care service across Hyderabad, paediatric palliative teams inside MNJ and Niloufer government hospitals, and 10-bed centres in Kurnool and Puttaparthi — with every service entirely free of cost.

Pain Relief and Palliative Care Society, Hyderabad reports the following, on its own site:

Between 900-1,000 patients admitted annually to Kumudini Devi Hospice with free care, food and medicines
30-bed in-patient facility and a 10-van home care service covering Hyderabad and environs
81 trained staff including doctors, nurses, social workers and physiotherapists