Dr Subhadra, Cachar Cancer Hospital, shares her experience about BCH's grassroots work
On behalf of Breast Cancer Hub (BCH) team serving in the villages BCH adopted in Cachar, Assam, I am extremely thankful to Dr Subhadra Goala, Cachar Cancer Hospital, for sharing her experience and invaluable insights about our team's relentless efforts.
Thank you for your time and appreciation of our grassroots work.
With gratitude,
Founder-President, Breast Cancer Hub
Website: https://www.breastcancerhub.org/
A brief about Breast Cancer Hub's project in the villages BCH adopted:
Breast Cancer Hub adopted 11 villages in Cachar, Assam, India, since February 2020, for door-to-door Cancer screening-awareness, Diagnosis, Treatment Management Aid and Counselling. We go to each house, generating awareness, teaching Breast Self-Exam, Self-Oral Screening, discussing signs & symptoms of all other cancers, and providing BCH Early detection cards (All Cancers) for each family. From no awareness, now each & every family has become aware of symptoms of Cancers after our penetration. We monitor & manage each suspicious case individually, case by case. We take the suspicious cases to Cachar Cancer Hospital (CCH), or Silchar Medical College (SMC), for further screening, diagnosis, and treatment and we are thankful to SMC & CCH for their support. The hospitals provide treatment at subsidized rates under the government-aided schemes but the remaining treatment expenses, BCH covers. The villagers are daily wage earners living a hand-to-mouth existence without any savings. On many occasions, there is no person in the family to accompany the patient to the hospital, eventually delaying or skipping treatment. BCH team takes care end to end, starting from providing transport, purchasing medicines, diagnostic tests, that are not covered under the government schemes. BCH team assists the patients by taking them to the hospital, helping with income certificate, AAA card, hospital registration, patient communication with the doctor, accompanying them in the full diagnosis process, buying necessary medicines, dropping them home with follow-ups & counseling. BCH provides treatment aid to the poor and needy and before giving the Aid, our project Coordinator Sanalembi Devi conducts background verification of the economic status of the family of the patient. We take accountability of each case, helping them from beginning to end.
The 11 Villages BCH adopted since February 2020: Sundari Part-I, Sundari Part-II, Sundari Part-III, Sundari Part-IV, Boali (Boalihaor), Sentcatherine, Bhorakhai, Bidruhipar, Bhaurikandi-I, Bhaurikandi-II, Dharamkhal
The BCH Team
Sanalembi Devi, Sapna Pashi, Ranjitha Singha, Sarita Singha, Sangita Bagdi, Uma Nunia, Pallabi Patro and Dr Lopamudra Das Roy.
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