Celebration of Independence Day under the theme “Freedom From Pain” with Cancer Patients by DNipCare

The Independence Day Celebration for DNipCare volunteers was a varied one as we enjoy celebrating the joyous occasion with Cancer Patients for whom the festivals and festivities are taboo while reeling under the pain and perils of the disease.  Completion of six years of the relentless mission of Palliative Care under DNipCare coinciding with the Independence Day, the entire day was spent by the volunteers cheering up the Cancer patients with music, entertainment, distribution of fruit juices, sponsored by M/s Dabur India Ltd., Delhi and exchanging pleasantries in Delhi State Cancer Institute and adjacent Sir Sobha Singh Dharamshala where patients from faraway places come and avail the treatment.  The campaign was held under the theme "Freedom From Pain"

The volunteers hailing from all walks of life especially the student community from different Universities, Colleges and IIT in Delhi enthusiastically participated in the program.  The patients and their bystanders also took part in singing patriotic and cinematic songs, bhajans etc.  Dr. Deepak Srivastava, Dr. Joy Elemon, the medical professionals led the campaign under the theme of “Freedom From Pain” and the participants resolved to volunteer to bring back the smile on the faces of these ailing patients.      

With warm regards,

kv hamza,

General Secretary, DNipCare

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Celebration of Indian Independence Day with Cancer Patients

Review Meetings of Palliative Care activities & Outpatient Clinic

Orientation on Community Based Palliative Care for Social Work Students of Aditi Mahavidyalaya, Bawana, Delhi

The volunteers of DNipCare held an orientation session on Community Based Palliative Care for the 3^rd year undergraduate Social Work students of Aditi Mahavidyalaya, Bawana, Delhi today, i.e., 26th July 2014.  

Arun Unnikrishnan, Suresh Thaliyaril, Seema Prasad and KV Hamza conducted the session highlighting the necessity of Palliative Home Care for long term, bedridden, terminally ill patients including Cancer Patients and Geriatrics.  

The role of students in emerging as the potential volunteers from the Aditi Mahavidyalaya, all women college under Delhi university situated in the Bawana village in the outskirts of Delhi, is more significant in order to provide the care and support to deserving patients especially in the rural areas as an outreach program for both the college as well as the DNipCare.   Prof. Shalini Pandey and Prof. Shreejaya Pillai of the Social Work Department coordinated the program.

With regards,

kv hamza,

General Secretary, DNipCare

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Our Condolence….

It is for the information of all our volunteers and well-wishers that one of our Palliative family members bid farewell to this world today. Mr. Ravi Dutt, Cancer patient, from Meet Nagar in Delhi was in our Palliative family since May 2014 when he was availing treatment from Delhi State Cancer Institute. He died at 7.30 PM today, ie., 24th July 2014 in Shanti Avedna Sadan where he was shifted for hospice care on 18th June 2014. 


Let us pray for the departed soul. We are grateful to all our volunteers likeArun Unnikrishnan , Ajith Kumar , Suresh Thaliyaril , Seema Prasad, Abdul Kareem Mansha Bagai, etc., to name a few for their ardent support for this patient.

With regards,

kv hamza,
General Secretary, DNipCare
www.dnipcare.org
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Social Care in Palliative Care

Often we find ladies roaming in the colonies with a bundle of cloth and lot of utensils to barter new utensils for old clothes to the contentment of ladies in the families. Have you ever thought of what these old clothes are meant to?

Today, Saturday, while on Palliative Home Care visit to Haiderpur, a small hamlet in the outskirts of Delhi, we ( with Suresh Thaliyaril ) had a chance to see the recycling of these old clothes collected from housing colonies. Kismat Lal (names changed) is a Tongue Cancer patient living in a thatched shed kind of a room with his wife and two children. The treatment options of chemotherapies, Radiotherapies including Brachytherapy are over in his case and now it is only the medicines to reduce pain and sufferings. Kismat used to collect the old and worn out clothes from the colony cloth collectors and mend, iron and ready them to be sold to the factory workers in the outskirts of Delhi and used to try his marketing even at faraway places like Bhawana. Now as he is struggling with the disease, the role has been taken over by his wife to mend and patch the clothes, thereby stitching together their own worn out life as well through the meager amount of ten or fifteen rupees per piece of cloth they earn totaling to a couple of hundred bucks at the maximum on comparatively better days without rain or extreme climates. 

Sitting on a corner of the room Kajal, 9 year old daughter of Kismat was looking at us pryingly while we were in conversation with him and his wife. Saturday is a working day for schools especially Government schools in Delhi and what is this cute looking pony tailed slender girl doing at home? She is not dropped out of the school, but got admission to the Government school this year only after leaving her old private school which her family can seldom afford now. Reluctantly the family disclosed that it is due to lack of uniform she has been asked by teacher to stay out of the school. Though old and worn out, her uniform of earlier school also did not work here due to change of school. 

As per the tall claims of local Government every girl child is being provided not only uniform, but books and study materials by authorities, but none has reached this child nor her school so far, may be thanks presenting of a late budget of suspended animation status Delhi Government in the Parliament on this week. Social care being an integral part of Palliative Care, we could resolve the situation in this particular family’s case so as to avoid loosing her further school days, but what about many such children whom none reaches out?.... 

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