BCH Adopted 20 Villages in India - 20,658 Screened
Report on Breast Cancer Hub (BCH) adopted 20 villages in India for door-to-door Cancer Screening, Diagnosis, Treatment Management, and Palliative Care- 20,658 Screened. More villages in progress. Pictures published with consent.
We screened a) 20,000 individuals from 17 villages in Cachar District, Assam from Feb 2020 - Nov 2023; b) 549 villagers in Huda & Kumari villages, Nadia Dist, West Bengal from Nov 2022 - Nov 2023, and c) 109 villagers in Buratal village, Ganjam Dist, Odisha from Dec 2023 - Jan 2024. We take the suspicious cases in a) Cachar Dist, Assam to Cachar Cancer Hospital (CCH), or Silchar Medical College (SMC), b) in Nadia Dist to Krishnanagar District Hospital, c) in Ganjam Dist, will take to Primary Health Centres in Patrapur Block, Jarada Ganjam, and if needed to M.K.C.G Medical College in Brahmapur.
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 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, providing food during the process and dropping them home with follow-ups & counseling. BCH provides treatment aid to the poor in utmost need who have no one to take care of them.
A huge shout-out to our Current teams: a) Cachar Dist (17 villages adopted): Sanalembi Devi, Sapna Pashi, Ranjitha Singha, Sangita Bagdi, and Sarita Singha. b) Nadia Dist (2 villages adopted): Rimpa Biswas, Sima Basak, Ratna Basak, Sabarna Saraswati; c) Ganjam Dist (1 village adopted): Harapriya Paik, Laxmubai Paika, Akhaya Mohanty. Thanks to Jagdish Paik, and Ajit Kumar Paik for the help. More villages are in progress for adoption.
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With heartfelt gratitude,
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