Support for food, cloth and medical treatment of lifelong bed ridden patients of Gandhavan Pain and Palliative Care Home

Gandhibhavan started Pain and Palliative Care Home since 2008. This Centre registered under Orphanage Control Board with Regn.No.2396 is functioning in Gandhibhavan. Bed-ridden members of the Gandhibhavan family are residing in the centre and utmost care is provided.Another Pain & Palliative Care Home is functioning at Valakam, in Kollam and registered with Kerala Orphanage Control Board (No.OCB 2550).Palliative care provides advanced care planning and a support system to help you live a life that is as active, fulfilling, and as pain-free as possible.

Bedridden patients usually stay in bed for long periods, presenting several motor problems caused by immobility, such as reductions in muscle mass, bone mineral density and physical impairment, resulting in a long recovery process. Other problems may arise, such as pressure sores, muscular weakness/atrophy, muscular shortness, respiratory complications, blood circulation difficulties and bone demineralization, which can quickly develop and result in long recovery processes.

The numbers of bed ridden patients are increasing per day in Gandhibhavan rehabilitation homes. The ministers, MLAs, MPs, District Collectors, and Govt department officials ,NGOs and Social workers are referring the bed ridden patients to Gandhibhavan for caring and support.The poverty of family is the main reason to refer the patients. Due to poverty the family is unable to manage finance for the care and treatment of bed ridden patients. Also some families are treating the patients as burden to them and abandoning them. But Gandhibhavan is providing them life time care and support with basic amenities. We are not receiving any grant from government or any other funding agencies for the care and support of bed ridden patients. The public donations are helping us to manage our pain and palliative home. It is not sustainable. We are admitting patients from anywhere from India. In the Covid situation we had faced critical situation to manage our pain and palliative care home like other homes. The major problem is the lack of permanent financial supporting agency.  In this context, we request you to allow financial assistance for smooth functioning of pain and palliative care homes for bed ridden patients.

 

Ø Providing life time care and support

Ø Providing life food, medicine, cloth..etc

Ø Providing life time medical treatment

Ø Providing life time therapies

Ø Providing life time music therapy

Gandhibhavan was already selected by Ministry of Social Justice and empowerment Govt of India  as best institution in India for providing better services to senior citizens. Our dream is to bring our pain and palliative care home for bed ridden patients as a model pain and palliative care home in India. If provided financial support we can rehabilitate more bed ridden patients . We can give admission to beneficiaries from anywhere India. It will encourage and motivate other social workers, government, students and public to support bed ridden patients for their better care.