During the month of April
when the mercury rises to 43 degrees in Delhi, the worries of parents suffering
from chronic diseases are immeasurable for their inability to buy uniforms, text
and note books etc., of school going children due to priority shifting to
treatment. DNipCare (Delhites’ National
Initiative in Palliative Care) has been trying to reduce this burden of its chronic
patients since 2010 through a humble ABC (Annual Books Copy) Grant of support
to text and note books.
Ever increasing costs of
treatment, inadequate Governmental support, overflowing tertiary care centres
etc., are some of the perennial issues chronic patients are facing in Delhi every
day. On the other hand, children of Cancer,
Kidney, Cardio vascular disease patients thus bear the real brunt of poverty and
sufferings losing out not only their education but the decent livelihood in future. The society to which these chronic patients
belong to also looks the other way.
In this melee, the ABC Grant from DNipCare
surely brings back the sparkle in the eyes of these young students with a
reassured hope for education, growth and development. Selected 23 such families comprising of over
50 students have thus been benefited with the grant during April 2017
distributed at their homes by volunteers of DNipCare during Palliative Home
Care visits thereby ensuring the utmost dignity of the patients and their
children.
However, it is not even a drop considering the
huge number of patients suffering silently in the four walls of their dwellings
without appearing in any census or books of Government and other agencies. So the humble request is to the present Governments
to be empathetic and sensitive enough to the needs of chronic patients and
their families through structured schemes and programmes in the absence of an
official policy and program for Palliative Care at Governmental level.
