Alpha Pain Clinic commenced its service with a mission to provide palliative care to the needy anywhere in the world. The Clinic started functioning on May 3, 2005 providing Palliative home Care to Mrs.Bhuvaneswari Amma, the 1st patient to register at Alpha.

Alpha Charitable Trust, the mother organization, has been providing social welfare support to those in distress, without discrimination irrespective of race, religion, caste, creed and political affiliation.

Alpha Pain Clinic was formally inaugurated on November 13 2006.

Located at Edamuttam, Thrissur district near to NH 17 and having Centers in Palakkad and Thrissur Town in Kerala State, Alpha Pain Clinic provides home care, in-patient hospital care, out-patient consultation and Day care services totally free of charge to patients abandoned by the hospitals. About 50 % of those register with Alpha Pain Clinic are found to have advanced conditions of cancer, many others have Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease, end-stage renal disease, heart disease or old-age issues. About 28% are people permanently bedridden after disease or accidents, people with neurological problems and children with delayed milestones etc.

After registration, doctor’s home care is provided within 24 hours in most cases but the patient could come to the centre at any time round the clock, without waiting for the doctor’s visit and without taking appointment. The doctor decides the medication and nursing care on regular basis.

Four Nurses Home Care teams, 2 teams from the main centre in Edamuttam and one each from Palakkad and Thrissur, leave the centers everyday morning except Sundays and Fridays. Each team visits 5 to 8 patients per day. Their objective is to improve the quality of life by controlling pain and distressing symptoms caused by the disease. In addition to providing nursing care themselves, they train the care givers living with the patients.

Once the physical problems are brought under control, the next major issue confronting the patient is found to be financial, in the socio economic scenario prevailing in Kerala. To address this and other non-medical problems, Alpha seeks out volunteers from the community who are ready spend at least 2 hours each week without remuneration. The selected volunteers are given training at their locality. The volunteers’ scope of work is to establish personal rapport with the patient, to find out non-medical problems faced such as financial, psycho-social and spiritual. This include children’s education, marriage, housing, employment and in many cases, mere survival. The volunteers form local committees called Chapters, discuss the problems among themselves and work out solutions.

Alpha Pain Clinic has employed several doctors, nurses and other para-medical and non-medical staff on full-time basis. The total staff strength as at 31 July 2011 is 62. The number of patients receiving palliative care on that day was 1512, most of them living in their homes.