Persatuan Kerjasama Paliatif Pulau Pinang (PKP3) was established in April 2023 as a platform for palliative care providers in Penang to come together to promote holistic care for patients, as well as to improve and support care providers via education and research. We also aim to advocate about issues related to palliative care.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines palliative care as “an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.”