By Bryli Blankenship | Assistant to the Executive Director
As the year 2017 comes to a close, we would like to thank you for helping us provide hospice and palliative care services to forty four patients and their families in Ujjain, India. As we shared with you in our previous project reports, until about six months ago, no hospice and palliative care services were available to the terminally ill patients in this area. Through our partnership with the government of Madhya Pradesh, India, to establish hospice and palliative care services at Ujjain District Hospital, we are able to provide relief to many families.
As stated in previous reports, Dr. C. M. Tripathi completed his training in the USA in July, and then established the hospice and palliative care program in Ujjain upon his return. The next step in this project is to train nursing staff to better equip them to provide high quality hospice and palliative care services to those in need. A hospice and palliative care nurse from the USA will be traveling to Ujjain District Hospital, India in January 2018 to provide hands on training to the local nurses in their own setting.
The need for hospice and palliative services is tremendous in this state, as well as in most of the developing world. Dr. Tripathi and his team in Ujjain enrolled 17 patients in the past one month alone. Dr. Derrel Walker, a hospice and palliative care specialist in Boise, Idaho, will also be traveling to India in the Spring 2018 to train other physicians and healthcare providers. After the healthcare providers at Ujjain District Hospital are trained, they will serve as master trainers to provide training to healthcare providers from other district hospitals in Madhya Pradesh.The Binaytara Foundation’s goal is to develop the required health manpower in hospice and palliative care and to establish these programs in all 51 districts of Madhya Pradesh so that hospice and palliative care services will be available to the 73 million people living there.
We invite you to join us in this effort and help bring hospice and palliative care services to many families in need. We may not be able to stop death, but together, we can ensure that nobody dies in pain. Thank you for your support!
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