Jagannath Jayanthi is a retired additional general manager at the Ministry of Railways in India. He is now a member of the Executive Committee of the NGO Pain Relief and Palliative Care Society, which works in the field of palliative care and end of life care in Hyderabad and is one of the pioneers in the field of palliative care in the State of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. After the cancer death of his wife (he was the principal care giver) in 2010, Jagannath decided to dedicate post retirement life to the cause of promoting palliative care, which is especially deficient among the poorer communities in India. Today the society is running a full-fledged 24 bed in-house hospice, a vast home care services network, a pediatric palliative care program at the Government MNJ Cancer Hospital and a rural outreach program in a cluster of 30 villages outside Hyderabad. He manages a staff of 48 personnel consisting of doctors, nurses, social workers and others, and is also in-charge of its fundraising initiatives. Jagannath brings with him a vast administrative experience and a deep compassion to the cause of promoting end of life and palliative care for the end stage cancer patients.