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K.V. Srinivasan
FounderK.V. Srinivasan is the founder of DEAN Foundation Hospice & Palliative Care Centre (1998)[1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare and palliative & cancer care from Chennai.
DEAN Foundation Hospice & Palliative Care Centre
DEAN Foundation has delivered free palliative and hospice care to low-income cancer and terminal-illness patients in and around Chennai since 1998, working in partnership with Tamil Nadu's health department. It also runs a paediatric palliative care unit inside a government children's hospital.
DEAN Foundation Hospice & Palliative Care Centre reports the following, on its own site:
- 20,667 patients treated since inception (9 March 1998), as on 30 June 2026
- 87,634 outpatient and 82,405 home care visits conducted
- 3,999 children treated in the Paediatric Palliative Care Project
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Chennai
- Founded
- 1998
- Press
- 1
References
- [1] “On 9 March 1998, the three came together to lay the Foundation; the Trust was formally registered, as DEAN Foundation” — DEAN Foundation Hospice & Palliative Care Centre. Source
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