Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said that Kerala has set a new model in the health sector through the Kerala Care palliative network initiative.

The project aims at providing a comprehensive medicare to the bed-ridden patients in the State, he said at the State-level inauguration of the Kerala Care palliative network here on Saturday.

He said that the government is committed to ensuring relief to the patients by setting up a network that included government and non-governmental institutions involved in palliative care. The various palliative care units in the governmental and private sectors will be brought under a single umbrella, he said.

As part of the comprehensive care programme, each patient will be linked to a trained volunteer. Through the palliative care grid, the government intends to bring together all activities related to palliative care, including registering new patients for continued care, registration of all voluntary non-governmental organisations in the area of palliative care and the registration and training of new volunteers.

Ministers M. B Rajesh, Veena George, P. Rajeeve, and Hibi Eden, MP attended.