The 40-bedded Myitayeikmon Cancer Foundation located in Dagon Mmyothit Township, in the east of Yangon, is a place where terminally ill cancer patients who ate waiting for their last moments on this earth are cared for with tender loving care. The founder of this establishment is U Hla Tun, aged 82 who was born in 1992 in Mandalay, in Central Myanmar of parents Uhla Pe and Daw Saw. He established the foundation in October 1998 and since then he has been able to fulfill his aim. During the 6 years period, he has managed to set up an international standard Hospice in Yangon on the 2nd of September 2000.

After his only daughter had died of cancer, he made up his mind to take over the noble task of looking for terminally ill cancer patients as much as he can. His Hospice became a member of the Asia, Pacific and English Hospice Association. Since its opening, it has provide care to a large number of terminally ill cancer patients.
This programme, we will be presenting to you the daily routine of the U Hla Tun Hospice. Every morning the nurses and staff make up the patients' beds, and carry out other daily routine chores.
After breakfast, patients are given their daily medicine intakes. Next, they can profess according to their faiths. Some of them enjoy themselves by watching TV during their free time

For lunch, suitable meals are prepared and for those who are not able to move about, the staffs serve the meals in bed. A library is provided for the patients so that they can spend their free time reading while others can meditate whenever they want to.
As they motto is our duty to care, care is to U Hla Tun myitta Veikman Cancer foundation houses and cared for formally ill patients free of charge regardless of race and creed even rich or poor. Whenever patients pass away, they are giving funeral according to their religion they protest.
Although the patients at the Hospice considered themselves as persons without a future, due to the warm care of all the specialists, nurses and staff of this Hospice makes them feel happy and cared for. And in a way, this will make those who look after them be satisfied with themselves for accomplishing the aim, that is the tender caring of terminally ill persons.