By Bryli Blankenship | Assistant to the Executive Director
This year started with a great amount of progress. Thanks to your support, and the support of the government of Madhya Pradesh, India, we have need able to serve 30 patients and their families in Ujjian, Madhya Pradesh this February.
As stated in our last report, we sent two nurses from Boise, Idaho to Ujjain District hospital to train the nursing staff in order for them to provide high quality hospice and palliative care services. Valerie Loftin, RNCS and Connie Alexander RNCM, BSN, clinical supervisors at Horizon Home Health and Hospice in Idaho, provided two weeks of hands on training to ten nurses at the hospital. Pain management was a large part of the training course, but they also focused on other end of life symptoms, such as anxiety, nausea, constipation, agitation, and grief.
Hospice and palliative care services were virtually non-existent in Madhya Pradesh, leaving too many patients to die in pain and discomfort. “Many people in this area are in need of this type of care and are forgotten about,” said Lofitn. “End of life symptom management is a must for cancer patients, for hospice and palliative care, keeping the patient comfortable and managing symptoms to ensure they have the highest quality of life for as long as they live is our goal.”
The next phase of this project will include training more physicians and other healthcare providers so that they will become the next generation of trainers, and will educate providers from other district hospitals throughout Madhya Pradesh. This will help to further the Binaytara Foundation’s goal of developing healthcare manpower in underserved areas of the world.
We hope you will join us in this effort, and help bring hospice and palliative care services to the 73 million people in Madhya Pradesh. Death is a part of life; together we can ensure no one dies in pain. Thank you for your support!
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