Carrying Blood in Metro Trains,,,,,,,,,,,,,,?

On Sunday there was an urgent requirement of 5 units of blood for Mr. Abraham, a bilateral kidney failure patient and we the volunteers of DNipCare were on the mad run to arrange it. With the grace of God and support of our volunteers and well-wishers like Manish Taneja, Abdul Basheer, Seema Prasad , Nidhi Shuklaand Ajith Kumar, we could arrange the required units of blood and were rushing back to hospital by Delhi Metro Rail with the blood packets neatly packed in the thermocol container. 

However, the CISF Security personnel deployed in Keshavpuram Metro station, where the luggage scanner was out of order and repairing was undergoing, were having the unwritten guidelines not to allow carrying the life saving blood in Delhi Metro trains, God knows under whose direction. The discussions, arguments and finally getting a telephone number to contact the higher ups in CISF finally solved the issue by way of an oral permission to carry the blood packets in metro train. 

But at the end of the day the pertinent question coming repeatedly in the mind is that in the absence of clear guidelines of CISF authorities, will it not be the loss of precious time or even life for any critically ill patient waiting desperately for the life saving blood in hospital bed if someone carrying it is not allowed to travel by metro rail? Is anybody listening……….?

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

Our Condolences.......

It is not her soul that departed us at 8 PM today, ie., 20^th May 2013, but for a while it was like the hope and zeal of all of us, the volunteers of DNipCare who were there with Mrs. Preety  Pratap(Lissy). 

Our association with her under DNipCare family was for hardly about 10 months or so during her fight with Cancer, but she was always with an enchanting smile and brave heart.   We can never forget her enthusiasm in ensuring her gracious presence and participation in our World Palliative Care Day celebrations 2013 on her way back from AIIMS after getting chemotherapy.  

We do miss her very much.  We miss her smile, her courage, her strong desire for life and above all the sweet black tea she fondly makes especially for me.

We are so grateful to all our volunteers like Suresh Thaliyaril, Sania Sharma, Seema Prasad, Shilpa Babu, Kasturi Babu, Ajith Kumar, Arun Unnikrishnan, Molly etc., to name a few who tried to render the care and support for her through Palliative Home Care under DNipCare.  We also acknowledge the care provided to her by all especially Kishore during her treatment in AIIMS.     

Her memory will ever be an inspiration to all of us to care for all ailing patients and bring in a smile of confidence on their faces. Let us all pray for the departed soul and to give enough strength to her bereaved family to bear with their irreparable loss.  

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

Our Condolences....

Yet another tragedy in DNipCare’s Palliative family today, i.e., 18^th May 2013 at 5 PM is the sad end of a young boy of 14 years succumbing to the killer disease Cancer (Eving's Sarcoma Right Calf).   Belonging to Saharsha district of Bihar, Imtiyaz was boy with greater intelligence and maturity than that of his age.  Most often he used to come all alone to Delhi State Cancer Institute to get his Chemotherapy administered and our nurse Caroline Arthur deployed there used to take the role of his bystander and sign the papers.  Our association with him was almost for a year through Palliative Home care, but we especially our volunteers like Radhika Lakshmi Patala, Harshit, Abubakar, Seema Prasad, Rafeeque etc., to name a few who used to visit him can hardly forget his sincere pale smile despite the excruciating pain he was undergoing due to creeping in of the disease to different parts of his leg.  We at this juncture would like to fondly remember all the support provided by the support provided by the group ‘BloodConnect’ of IIT, Delhi for this hapless boy.  Let us all pray to God to give Imtiyaz the peace and happiness in his heavenly abode. 

kv hamza,
Gen. Secretary, DNipCare
www.dnipcare
9891008356

No to Tobacco..... Cancer Prevention .... Part of Palliation

It was on 24th March 2013 that we could make yet another man Mr. Pandey to leave his tobacco chewing habit permanently.  He rides Cycle Rikshaw in Rithala/Rohini West Metro Station and our brief stint  with him was during our Palliative Home care visit to a Cancer Patient in Rohini.  The slightly grey haired Pandey straining to pedal his rikshaw and having intermittent cough made us think and to use our regular trick of asking for tobacco from him.  As expected, he was very happily took out his pouch and offered us the tobacco, but seldom understanding that after 5 minutes he will have to permanently snap the age old relationship with it.  

Thanks to great God, our mission accomplished when he torn, thrown down the tobacco along with its plastic container and trampled on it pledging not to use it ever again in his life holding his sacred Janeu (holy thread worn by the Hindu Brahmins) as witness to the pledge he took before us.

kv hamza,

Gen. Secretary, DNipCare

www.dnipcare.org

9891008356

    

DNipCare Monthly Review Meeting on Saturday, 11th May 2013

DNipCare Monthly Review Meeting 

on Saturday, 11th May 2013 

in Kerala Club, M 67 Connaught Place, New Delhi

School students into Palliation - The Summer Field School, Kailash Colony, Delhi

When the summer vacation is nearing most of the students are planning to spend their holidays merrily at different locations of their choice.  Those who are into coaching classes for entrance examinations are also busy altogether.  However, the choice of Class 11 Biology students of The Summer Field School, Kailash Colony, Delhi is a varied one, which is to serve the ailing long term, bedridden, terminally ill patients including Cancer Patients requiring Palliative Care.  An orientation campaign on the Palliative discipline was held for these students in their school by the volunteers of DNipCare. 

Shri Suresh Thaliyaril, the Florence Nightingale award winning Male Nurse of Safdarjung Hospital and Prof. Javed Hussain of Nano Technology, Aligarh Muslim University spoke on the occasion.  A presentation on the Palliative psycho-social and medical home care has also been made for the students. 

Seema Mittal, Mansha Bhagai, Seema Prasad etc., the Volunteers of DNipCare coordinated the program.  The students will now be rendering Palliative Care for the ailing patients under the directions of multi-disciplinary teams of DNipCare beginning from this summer vacation and thereafter.  Photographs of the program are also attached please.

With warm regards,

(kv hamza)

General Secretary, DNipCare

www.dnipcare.org 

9891008356

ABC Grant (Annual Books Copy Grant) 2013

PRESS RELEASE

Education of children seems to be the first victim when difficulties in the form of long term, bedridden, terminal illnesses crop up to anybody in the household of otherwise poor people.

  

The growing expenses of treatment and care for the patient seldom allows the parents to think of spending on new books, uniforms, fee etc., of their school going children.  While all the attention of family members, relatives and friends are focused on the curative options for bedridden patients, the underlying lament of the children to reach back to their, studies, school and friends are grossly neglected.  

The remorse of ailing patients of their illness becoming the reason for discontinuation of school/college education of their wards adds up the severity of disease and thereby they are deprived of the required quality in their otherwise long-term suffering  life.    

Sensitivity to this issue is required to be inculcated in not only the families of these bedridden patients, but to the society as a whole so that the true spirit of the Right to Education envisaged by the mandarins of Indian Education System can be fulfilled in totality.  

DNipCare (Delhites' National Initiative in Palliative Care ) is a voluntary organization in Delhi  with a holistic approach to address the issues of long term, bedridden, terminally ill patients including cancer patients through Palliative Home Care.  The organization's response to this issue is its ABC Grant (Annual Books Copy Grant) to support the children of patients on its roll during April, the beginning month of new academic year.

Instituted in 2010, this is the fourth consecutive year of providing ABC Grant to deserving students belonging to the families wherein simultaneous Palliative home care is also ensured for ailing patients.  

The support to procure text/copy books and uniforms have been distributed to 17 families having palliative patients to benefit 32 students this year from 1st to 30th April 2013 through the volunteers network of DNipCare providing palliative home care to the patients in Delhi.  

With warm regards,

kv hamza,

Gen. Secretary, DNipCare

www.dnipcare.org

9891008356