Physical Health Nepal Project #21246

Hospice Care for the Terminally Ill

by Binaytara Foundation

Project Report | Sep 22, 2017
New Partnerships Serving Terminally Ill Patients

By Bryli Blankenship | Assistant to the Executive Director

Dr. Mishra Tending to a Patient

In our last report, I shared with you the news about our partnership with a local physician in Janakpur, Nepal to start a home hospice program there. Since then, our physician partner Dr. Ajay Mishra has completed the online training through the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) and has already started to provide hospice and palliative care services. A total of five patients have already received hospice and palliative care services under this program. One such patient is Sambhu (name changed) who was in tremendous pain and discomfort due to the many surgeries and treatments he had for his head & neck cancer.

Dr. Mishra and his team visited Sambhu at his home and provided comfort care including wound care and pain management. The hospice and palliative care team educated the family members on how to care for Sambhu and in consultation with the family, developed a care plan for Sambhu that focused on keeping him comfortable. Thanks to your support and willingness to help, Sambhu and his family could sleep comfortably in the night after he was enrolled in this hospice program.

The role of trained healthcare providers who are also culturally apt is extremely important in end of life care. Dr. Mishra says, “Hospices provide care for people from the point at which their illness is diagnosed as terminal, to the end of their life. Hospice care places a high value on dignity, respect, and the wishes of the person who is ill, and aims to look after all their needs, as well as the needs of the person’s loved ones.” The new model of hospice and palliative care partnership we have adopted in Nepal enables local healthcare providers to provide holistic care to terminally ill patients through the integration of scientific evidence, culturally appropriate practices, and sustainable, cost-effective services. We invite you to be part of this history-making efforts and help thousands of terminally ill patients in these communities live comfortably during the last few weeks or months of their lives!

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Jun 26, 2017
Expanding hospice care to patients in Janakpur

By Tara Shah | Project Leader

Since we started the home hospice program in Patan, Nepal in January of 2016, our home hospice program has grown, evolved, and served more than 100 terminally ill individuals and their families in the Patan area. As the Binaytara home hospice program in Patan became popular among families of terminally ill patients, requests for similar programs started coming to the BTF leadership from many patients and families of terminally ill patients in other parts of the country.

While the focus of our home hospice program in Nepal remained providing the highest quality, culturally acceptable, holistic care to patients in our care; the BTF leadership constantly looked for ways to expand the program to other parts of Nepal. As a result, we announced a partnership opportunity for physicians, non-profits, and healthcare organizations in Nepal to start a home hospice program in their communities. We are very excited to share with you that we have recently entered into a partnership with a physician leader in Janakpur (a city in the mid-south region of Nepal with a population of over $200,000). We expect this hospice program to start in early August after the hospice team completes the necessary hospice and palliative care training.

Under the Binaytara Home Hospice partnership, we will provide hospice and palliative care training and necessary support as well as fee for service to the hospice team for providing home hospice care to the terminally ill patients in their area. Sustainability remains at the core of our project goals; the goal of this home hospice partnership is also to encourage and enable the healthcare providers as well as the community members to make this program sustainable after two years of starting it.

We would like to thank you helping us bring home hospice program to the people of Nepal. We will continue to update you about our progress in this new endeavor.

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Mar 29, 2017
Hospice care to everyone who needs it!

By Bryli Blankenship | Project staff

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