Sad demise of Mrs. Silviya Pillai

Heartfelt condolences on the sad demise of our dear Mrs. Silviya Pillai at 10 PM on 3rd September 2011. Funeral will be at 11 AM on 4th September 2011 in MCD Cemetry, Sector 24 under South West Delhi Christian Cemetry, Dwarka. Please pray for the departed soul.

KV Hamza,
General Secretary, DNipCare
9891008356

Dr. Suresh Kumar

"Freedom from Pain" - Celebration of Independence Day with Cancer Patients

We, the volunteers of DNipCare celebrated Indian Independence Day celebration with Cancer Patients under the theme “Freedom from Pain”.

A Palliative Care sensitization program was held in the Charitable Clinic, Shri Ayyappa Temple, Dilshad Garden, Delhi where more than 150 people participated. Prof. Omcherry NN Pillai inaugurated the program. Shri Ramachandran Pillai, President, Ayyappa Seva Samiti presided over the function and declared that Ayyappa Seva Samiti will ardently involve in providing Palliative Care to the patients in Dilshad Garden area in close association with DNipCare. Dr. K.R. Grover, Director, Delhi State Cancer Institute was the Chief Guest of the program. Palliative Care sensitization with emphasize on Geriatric care especially in the growing urban nuclear family scenario was done by KV Hamza, General Secretary, DNipCare. Shalini Narayan, Psychologist spoke at length on the woes and issues of care givers and long term, bedridden terminally ill patients. Antony Cyriac summed up the sensitization session with focus on the necessity of the outreach of Palliative Care to the masses and the requirement of committed volunteers to carry on the mission. Dr. KR Grover highlighted the Cancer scenario in India vis-à-vis developed countries and the immediate and imminent paradigm shift required in the approach and attitude of the people towards cancer and cancer patients. He appreciated the services being provided by DNipCare since its inception and also their association with Delhi State Cancer Institute for the last 1 ½ years in providing Palliation to the hapless cancer patients. Shri Sachidanand, the eminent Malayalam writer was the Guest of honour and declared his commitment and solidarity with Palliative Care movement to provide succor to the ailing patients.
Under “Freedom from Pain campaign” of DNipCare, the entire audience after the sensitization session walked down to Delhi State Cancer Institute and celebrated Independence Day with Cancer Patients. Fruit juices were also distributed to the patients admitted in the institute and also for those who are staying in Sir Soba Singh Dharamshala, adjacent to the Cancer Institute, while exchanging pleasantries. “I have attended 40 years Independence Day celebrations in Government set up and now a patient in Cancer Institute, but feel delighted to celebrate it here too with enthusiastic volunteers of DNipCare” fervently said a retired Government official, now admitted in the Institute for cancer treatment, while exchanging pleasantries with the volunteers.

kv hamza,
General Secretary, DNipCare
9891008356

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kv hamza,
General Secretary, DNipCare
9891008356

“Cancer Prevention & Early Detection and Palliative Care sensitization campaign” with “Freedom from Pain Campaign”

PRESS RELEASE

In association with the Ayyappa Sewa Samiti, Dilshad Garden, DNipCare is organizing a “Cancer Prevention & Early Detection and Palliative Care sensitization campaign” at 10 AM on Independence Day, the 15th August 2011 in the Charitable Clinic of Shri Ayyappa Temple, R Pocket, Dilshad Garden, Delhi. The campaign will focus on the aspect of prevention and early detection of cancer especially in view of the ever increasing carcinogens in the atmosphere and change in life style of the people. The session will be handled by voluntary doctors of DNipCare. The volunteers of DNipCare through their experience sharing session will sensitize the audience on the efficacy of Palliative Care for not only the long term bedridden and terminally ill patients but to the elders in their twilight years in the metropolis of Delhi where the population is predominantly of nuclear families. Eminent people from all walks of life are expected to participate in the campaign.

Further, as a sequel to the year 2010’s “Freedom from Pain Campaign”, the volunteers and well wishers of DNipCare will celebrate Indian Independence Day this year also with the ailing Cancer Patients of Delhi State Cancer Institute, Dilshad Garden. Patients admitted in the hospital as well as those staying in the adjacent Sir Soba Singh Dharamshala will be visited by the volunteers and fruit juices distributed along with exchanging pleasantries as a part of the Independence Day celebrations and try to curb the emotional isolation they are going through without any festivals and festivities due to the advent of their disease.

All are requested to participate in the program, declare solidarity with “Freedom from Pain Campaign” and celebrate Independence Day with Cancer patients for whom festivals and festivities are taboo while entangled in the Chemo, Radio therapies and surgeries mingled with the advent of emotional isolation on deteriorating physical conditions and demoralizing mental agonies.

kv hamza,
General Secretary, DNipCare
9891008356
www.dnipcare.org

What is it all about?

Yesterday 30th July, it was really a sultry Saturday, and I received a telephone call from Mrs. Varghese when I was driving back after visiting two ailing patients in Tilak Nagar and Mohan Garden with Mr. Sunil Gupta. It was totally a desperate cry for help from Mrs. Varghese as nobody was available with her for taking her to hospital to relieve her from the excruciating pain she was undergoing due to the portal vein hypertension and liver cirrhosis she is suffering from. My immediate instinct was to call up three of our stalwart volunteers of Palliative care teams as I was sure of not able to reach her from the far away Dwarka where I was then.

Last time when the same kind of pain started it was the broad day time and we all were in our offices and she had to resort to calling on 100, the ever busy Delhi Police, who courteously took her in their ambulance to the hospital and admitted her in emergency. We then felt the limitations of our palliative care movement that if the pain occurs to the patients on a week day, that too during office hours, we are helpless as our volunteership is confined to weekends and evenings of week days only.

Few to and fro call to them and Mr. Kumar was already out on road in Andrews Ganj looking for a taxi or auto to take Mrs. Varghese from Sunlight Colony to the Emergency ward of Safdarjung Hospital. It was understood that Mr. Abdul from Lodhi Colony had also started to the hospital by then after coordinating with Mr. Kumar. The bemoaning Mrs. Varghese was finally in the hospital, doctors promptly attended to her and administered pain killer injections calming her down in the emergency ward. Kumar and Abdul were still there in the hospital and by the time they finally left for their houses with a quite hope that Mrs. Varghese has been provided with a quick relief for the time being leaving her to the treatment and care of the good and always overworked doctors of Safdarjung hospital, one more hour had already passed after the calendar date of the day silently slipped into 31st July.

What is it all about? Are we doing social human care or Palliative Care? Abdul and Kumar are not medical professionals, but pen pushing Government officers who could have sat in the air conditioned comforts of their homes in this sultry day, but had already visited patients, provided monthly food rations, emotional support etc., wherever required during the day time on Saturday with other dedicated team members and took up further ordeal at 10 PM in the evening again.

So far we do not have the teams led by our own medical doctor and nurse, but definitely has the advantage of having few good hearted doctors and nurses coming with us voluntarily whenever they are free from their own working fields. We also do not have any vehicle of our own to take these doctor, nurse and volunteers to our patients spread all over Delhi or for patient transport. Be we gratefully thank Mr. E. Sreedharan for starting Metro rail as we resort to it for most of the travelling though we have to catch buses or cycle rikshas for destinations beyond Metro stations. None of our volunteers ever seen cribbing on these meager methods of transport we resort to even when the travelling charges are paid by themselves as the donations we receive are used solely on the patient care and not on overheads.

It is for the common public to scrutinize our mission in whichever form we may put it and also to see whether the patient has been benefited in any manner or not. Hope our patients and their families, for whom it may matter, may also decide what it is all about, a Social or Palliative Care.

kv hamza,
General Secretary, DNipCare
9891008356
www.dnipcare.org

End of an Era in the Humanitarian mission on demise of Brother Christu Das - The Indian Father Damien

He mattered very much for those ailing leprosy patients in getting a ray of hope in their lives. A visionary, able administrator and above all a true human being. We strongly believe that you and your achievements will always remain in the minds of everybody thinking on humanitarian causes.

kv hamza,
General Secretary, DNipCare
9891008356