This time, when I reached our Breast Cancer Hub (BCH) adopted villages in Nadia district, in West Bengal on 7th April 2024, I received a special hug from one of our patients (my precious moment), whose life was saved only because of our door-to-door cancer screening, accompanying patients to hospital after changing four rounds of transport that also includes local train, to reach Krishnanagar Sadar District Hospital, helping with diagnosis, treatment, palliative care, counseling, support, and providing food as needed, taking a holistic approach. The villagers are daily wage earners living a hand-to-mouth existence without any savings. On many occasions, there is no one in the family to accompany the patient to the hospital, eventually delaying or skipping treatment. BCH team takes care end to-end.· Therefore, BCH created a sustainable framework, by accompanying patients to hospitals, providing transport, generating villagers’ income certificates and BPL cards, helping with hospital registration, patient communication with healthcare professionals, providing Aid for diagnosis and treatment not covered under the government schemes, dropping patients home with follow-ups, counseling, support, taking the same patients back to the hospital on the next appointments, teaching the post surgery exercises, assisting with the comprehensive treatment process, case by case.
We completed the screening for Kumari and Huda villages. The new villages starting in May 2024 are Kushaberia and Nathkura under Panchayat: Dutta pulia, P.O Barboria, P.S Dhantala, District: Nadia; and Ramnagar village, PO Kumari Ramnagar, P.S Hanskhali, District Nadia.
Very proud of our great team: Rimpa Biswas, Sima Basak, Ratna Basak, who are local residents of Kumari & Huda village, working wholeheartedly; Sabarna Saraswati who is the Field Project lead, directly supervises our Field workers for accuracy and transparency. The project is also supervised by Akhaya Mohanty.
With heartfelt gratitude,
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