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June 5, 2004

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  HEALTH CARE INSTITUTE: PROVIDING FREE CANCER DETECTION AND TREATMENT 
Health Care Institute, Kodungalloor, Thrissur

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Not as a philanthropic effort, but as a human right intervention do the volunteers at Health Care Institute view their regular camps for detection and treatment of cancer.

Joy, Karim, Biju, Maheen, Sasi, Devassi and a few others were already helping the sick and needy on their own when they got together and thought: wouldn’t it be better to pool their efforts?  And so was born the Institute on May 17, 1998 by organising a cancer detection camp.  If initially 25 persons contributed Rs.2500 each to start the venture, more and more benefactors, especially doctors, came to the scene as years rolled by.

The Institute works in tandem with the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC), Thiruvananthapuram and Pain and  Palliative Clinic, Kozhikode.  So far it has organized 17 camps in which 5030 persons were tested for the dreaded disease.  Of the 67 cases of cancer detected, almost 60 per cent could get cured after treatment at RCC.

In addition, the Institute organizes awareness camps as well as trainings for new volunteers.  According to the doctors of RCC, there are not many charitable institutions that organize camps with the regularity shown by the Health Care Institute.

Clinics are organized every Wednesday and Saturday and more than 400 patients depend on the Institute for their treatment.  While the cost of medicine alone comes to Rs.15000, the total expenses come to Rs.40000 per month.  With no funding by the Government or other donor agencies, the Institue fulfils its destiny, thanks to the large heartedness of a few doctors. 

Whether the patient is rich or poor, all the examinations and medicines at the Institute are provided free of charge.  In addition to concern for physical health, the Institute tries to take care of mental, social and spiritual dimentions of the patients by visiting the houses of patients who cannot come to the clinic.

 

 

Courtesy: Bindu K. Prasad, Malayalam, February 27, 2004

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