Palliative care is a concept that is little known in India.  It covers all aspects of caring and managing a patient for alleviation of symptoms when medicine can no longer cure the disease. Bangalore Hospice Trust, together with the Rotary Club of Bangalore Indiranagar, has taken the major initiative in starting  training activities for Doctors, Nurses, Social workers etc, both at the center and as out reach programmes at other institutions.  The center for palliative care education opened in May 1999 and is spreading growing awareness in the medical field.

This also ackowledges that being a voluntary organisation we might have our limitations of how many needy patients we might be able to reach. For this reason we have set for ourselves the goal of spreading the knowledge of Palliative Care to as many doctors, nurses, social workers etc. so that they can, in turn, reach the needy.