By Geetha | Associate : Fundraising and Partnerships
About Sanjeevan (Palliative Care)
Sanjeevan aims to provide community based home care for the incurably and terminally ill, chronically bedridden and elderly, by taking care of their physical, psychological, social, emotional and spiritual needs. The idea is to empower the neighbourhood to look after patients at home, supported by home care teams and trained health care professionals.
It involves sensitisation of the community and giving training in palliative care to all stakeholders including local people, volunteers, social workers, police personnel, doctors,nurses and health care workers at the primary care level. Links with existing medical institutions facilitate establishment of home care programs for patients.
Empowerment of community to address its own health issues creates an inclusive,independent and sustainable model, which has proved to work even for asocioeconomically and educationally backward society like rural Puducherry. The scalable and replicable nature of this model is important in setting a precedent for the rest of India.
About our Sanjeevan Team
Our Team of Palliative care comprising of project co-coordinator, health care professionals, volunteers, the community along with the vehicle dedicated for commuting the services to the patients, consistently carry out the activities
A supportive psychosocial environment is ensured for the patients which is more essential, in addition to medical and nursing care.
Food kits and medicinal essentials are provided periodically for the identified needy patients. The medicinal treatment includes physiotherapy.
The volunteers are trained such that they own the companionship and create a behavioral change in the community.
The patients are involved in creative activities like painting sessions in their communities.
The vehicle is utilized for commuting the patients to the referral collaborating institutions as and when required.
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