About Us

Palliative care is specialized medical care for people living with serious illnesses. At Soul Palliative Care, we focus on providing relief from pain, symptoms, and suffering while improving the quality of life for both patients and their families, no matter the diagnosis or stage of illness. Since 2017, we have been serving patients in four districts of Tamil Nadu through our dedicated multidisciplinary team of doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, and volunteers. Our care reaches directly into the homes of those in need, especially the underprivileged and marginalized communities.

Through our home care program, we provide regular doctor and nurse visits, physiotherapy services, medicines, assistive devices, and nutritional support in the form of food kits. We also extend our support beyond medical care by helping with children’s education, facilitating vocational training, and offering rehabilitation assistance to families who have lost their source of income. In addition, we provide counseling and emotional support to ensure that patients and families are cared for in a holistic manner.

Over the years, Soul Palliative Care has reached more than 30 villages in and around Chennai and has cared for over 2,000 patients, most of whom come from economically disadvantaged and marginalized backgrounds. Our mission is to ensure that every person we serve is treated with dignity, compassion, and respect, while receiving the care and support they need to live with comfort and hope.

What We Do

Why We are the Best?

We deliver structured, home-based palliative care grounded in clinical expertise, compassion, and ethical practice. Our multidisciplinary team of doctors, nurses, and trained caregivers provides personalized medical, emotional, and psychosocial support. By focusing on comfort, dignity, and continuity of care, we help patients manage complex illnesses at home while supporting families with guidance, counselling, and coordinated services throughout the care journey.

Mission

To continuously grow and reach people who suffer from pain and other serious disease related symptoms, provide dignity in death and quality of life to the living, and treat everyone with compassion, empathy and non-judgemental humaneness and not to let lack of awareness stand in anyone’s way of accessing the care they need.

Vision

A future where anyone with serious health-related suffering gets necessary care irrespective of their circumstances, and healthcare providers inculcate the aspects of palliative care in their practice.

Objective

  • Ensure continuous home-based palliative care for chronically ill and terminally ill patients.
  • Improve quality of life through pain relief, symptom management, and emotional support.
  • Strengthen caregivers through training and counselling.
  • Support vulnerable families through food kits, hygiene kits, and assistive devices.
  • Build community awareness on cancer, elderly care, and chronic disease prevention.
  • Train nursing students and volunteers to strengthen the future palliative care workforce.

Our Core Values

Compassion

We care deeply about people. Compassionate care is at the heart of what we do and why we exist. We listen with empathy, show kindness, and treat everyone with dignity and respect.

Commitment

We are dedicated to delivering care with integrity and professionalism. We stand by our promise to serve patients, families, communities, and each other with consistency and trust.

Competence

We believe quality care starts with competence. By using our knowledge, skills, and judgment, we do the right thing for the right reason—ensuring safety, accuracy, and excellence in all that we do.

Collaboration

We work together as one team. By bringing together diverse skills, disciplines, and perspectives, we empower each other to meet the needs of every individual and community we serve.

Creativity

We embrace innovation. By tapping into ideas, talents, and experiences within ourselves and our community, we find new ways to overcome challenges and continually improve the care we provide.

Board of Trustees

Preetha Mahesh

Founder- Managing Trustee

K.A Mahesh Kumar

Philanthropist

Anu Savio Thelly

MGMCRI- Pondicherry

Nirmal Jain

Philanthropist

Advisory & Mentorship Board

Dr. Revathi Saravanan

Medical Director

Ms. Sumitha Thulasidharan

Consultant – Public Health

Dr. Divya Narayanan

CMO, Military Hospital Chennai

Anoop Vasan

MD AVA Group of companies

Dr. Rammiya

Paediatric Cardio Thoracic Surgeon

Monitoring & Evaluation Team

Ms. Lijimol AS

Consultant – Public Health

Ms. Sumitha Thulasidharan

Consultant – Public Health

Anshid C I

Palliative Social worker

Training Team

Palliative Nursing Capacity Enhancement Team

Anu Savio Thelly

MGMCRI- Pondicherry

Alice Stella Verginia

Retd Army & Govt medical College
hospital, Calicut Nursing officer

Dr. Rajam liyer

Consultant Pulmonologist &
Palliative Care

Lt Col -Lovely Antony

(Retd) Professor and Head of Department at
National Hospital College of Nursing, Kozhikode

Community Outreach Facilitators

Preetha Mahesh

Founder- Managing Trustee

Anshid C I

Palliative Social worker

S. Vetriselvan

(MSW)

S.A. Dhikru Nisha

Admin Soul Palliative Care

Supporting Partners & Collaboration

Public

Government

Azim Premji Foundation

Pallium India

Rotary International

Savitha College Of Nursing

Sri Poorna MahaMeru Trust

Super Auto Forge

AVA Group