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DNipCare (Delhites’
National Initiative in Palliative Care) (Regd. No.
S-67554/2009) [An initiative to
improve the quality of life of patients and their families facing problems relating to life limiting illness, through holistic
assessment, psycho-social and medical support An initiative exclusively running on volunteers endeavour, reaching entire
resources to the deserving patients without any administrative
overheads. NGO with a difference by ensuring total
transparency as the daily fund flow is available in our website in
public domain for not only the beneficiaries and benefactors but also the common public to assess and analyze critically] Website: www.dnipcare.org
Blog http://dnipcare.blogspot.com
Tel.: 9891008356,
9868726697, 23389964 _________________________ Correspondence Address: A-170,
Pandara Road, New
Delhi-110003. Permanent Address: 83
Akriti Apartments, 62,
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Palliative
Care, ‘Santhwana Paricharanam’ (in Malayalam) is an attempt to provide
a quality life to the patients suffering from long term, bed-ridden and
terminal diseases like Cancer, AIDS, Paraplegia, Quadriplegia, Muscular
Dystrophy, Thalassemia, Cerebral Palsy etc., and also for perennial accident
victims. This endeavor is to discharge the social responsibility of conveying
our concern, love and care towards our fellow human beings who are in need of
some kind of solace or a helping hand to cope up with their progressing
terminal diseases. The
care is being rendered by multidisciplinary teams consisting of volunteers,
doctors and nurses, who visit the homes of patients regularly and provide
psycho social, emotional and medicinal support. The Palliative Care include not only end of
life care but systematic counseling and support to the patients and their
families from the moment the terminal disease is diagnosed. Harmonizing the relationships of the
patients and their family members, who are the main care givers, is also an
integral part of Palliative discipline. |
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By
drawing inspiration from the feature on Palliative Care movements of Kerala
published in Malayala Manorama Newspaper during the year 2008, DNipCare
(Delhites’ National Initiative in Palliative Care), an organization for
Palliative Care was born in Initially
a dedicated team of 45 volunteers joined together under DNipCare and have
been trained in Palliative Care in DNipCare
provides Palliative Home Care to patients with an average 2 home visit per
month per patient. Deserving poor patients and their families are being given
the monthly food ration by DNipCare regularly in addition to the medicines
and social support extended to them. We
are associated with Delhi State Cancer Institute, Dilshad Garden, Delhi for
providing Palliative Home Care for their patients staying in Delhi. |
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Providing
waterbeds to the prolonged bedridden patients suffering from bedsores,
financial and logistical support to the poor patients to get their treatments
and diagnostic tests done, counseling the deeply depressed terminally ill
patients thereby assisting them to bring in a ray of hope in their minds to
lead a quality life devoid of physical pain and socio psychological
sufferings, are some of the activities we are actively involved with. Providing
guidance and Assistance for rehabilitation of poor patients or their families
for earning a decent livelihood is also a program taken up by DNipCare and the
patients are able to move forward in their life with dignity. Setting up of a screen printing unit at the
residence of a paraplegic bedridden patient with urinary catheter, diabetics
and bedsores is a latest attempt of DNipCare on the above lines of rehabilitation
package. The
cases handled by DNipCare are extensively discussed by volunteers in the
Monthly Review Meetings held on Second Saturdays of every month in Kerala
Club, Reviews
of the cases are done by experts from Medical and Palliative fields and
discussions held to address the issues patients are facing with. Sensitization of the masses to think
positively for mitigating the sufferings of the hapless and ailing patients
around us is the priority area DNipCare holds close to the heart. |
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Doctors
and experts on Palliative Care field from various hospitals and other
renowned institutions attend these review meetings and provide valuable
guidance to the volunteers. Though
the beginning of this initiative was within the precincts of specific culture
of Malayalees under Kerala Muslim Welfare Association, Delhi, the potential
of the mission has leapt beyond its boundaries and thus now evolved a cosmopolitan
and multilingual approach with the participation of more kind hearted and
committed volunteers hailing from across the States in India. Both the patients and volunteers hail from various States of Our
organization believes in spreading awareness among masses thereby ensuring
maximum coverage of patients to get relief from the psycho social and medical
problems suffered by them. In
order to achieve this, we conduct sensitization programs in and around Funds
for providing medical and social support are being generated so far by the
volunteers by pooling in from own pockets and through small donations from
well wishers. Activities and day-today
accounting thereon including fund flow are available for public to review and
analyze critically as we provide them in our website www.dnipcare.org and blog http://dnipcare.blogspot.com/ in the
public domain. Hence our organization
also stands different from others in terms of its transparency as well. Contributions/Donations
can be made by way of Cheque/Demand Draft in favour of ‘DNipCare’. Savings
Bank Account No.11050100186834 Federal
Bank, M-17, Connaught Circus, While
we are hale and hearty, Let
us Empathize, Spare
some time and resources for
ailing patients and Spread
the message of Palliative Care !!!
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