KOCHI: The Specialists Hospital will celebrate the 17th anniversary of ‘Snehathanal’, the palliative homecare project implemented by the hospital for poor and bedridden cancer patients, at Taj Gateway at 5 pm on Saturday.‘Karmayogiyude Kalpadukal’, a book on the life and service of hospital director Dr K R Rajappan, will be released by Justice P S Gopinathan on the occasion. Justice K Sukumaran will inaugurate the function and writer M K Sanu will deliver the keynote address.
V Muraleedharan MP, MLAs Hibi Eden, S Sarma and writer Murali Parappuram will be present. Under the project, a doctor, two nurses and two paramedical staffers will visit the houses of bedridden patients and provide medical care.