{"entity":{"id":"cansupport-india","kind":"institution","name":"CanSupport","aka":["CanSupport Services"],"tldr":"A Delhi charity that sends free palliative care teams to the homes of people with cancer, and runs a helpline and counselling, founded by survivor Harmala Gupta in 1996.","summary":"Harmala Gupta founded CanSupport and registered it as a society in Delhi on 8 November 1996. In 1997 it ran a six-month pilot home care project with the Dr B. R. Ambedkar Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital at AIIMS, and it went on to build a home-based palliative care service.\n\nCanSupport says it runs the largest home-based palliative care programme in India, with free home care, counselling and a helpline, and that WHO has recognised it with a Public Health Champion award. It became a registered medical institution with an oral morphine licence in 2005, developed guidelines for home-based palliative care in India at WHO's invitation, and has extended home care to Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"CanSupport: history and legal profile","url":"https://cansupport.org/"},{"label":"National Cancer Grid: member list","url":"https://www.ncgindia.org/hospitals-and-institutions/members"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":["supportive-care"],"technologies":["palliative-care"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["national-cancer-grid","aiims-delhi"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"New Delhi","country":"IN","lat":28.552,"lng":77.208,"institutionType":"consortium","website":"https://cansupport.org","programs":["Free home-based palliative care","Helpline and counselling","Peer support groups","Palliative care training"]},"route":"/institutions/cansupport-india/","neighbours":{"section":[{"id":"supportive-care","kind":"section","name":"Supportive Care & Survivorship","route":"/fronts/supportive-care/"}],"technology":[{"id":"palliative-care","kind":"technology","name":"Early integrated palliative care","route":"/technologies/palliative-care/"}],"institution":[{"id":"aiims-delhi","kind":"institution","name":"All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi","route":"/institutions/aiims-delhi/"},{"id":"national-cancer-grid","kind":"institution","name":"National Cancer Grid of India","route":"/institutions/national-cancer-grid/"}]}}