SATSEVA (India’s First Home Care Programs)
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Patient Outreach Program
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| Before and during the early nineties, there was no concept of specialized pain management in India except the only hospice in Mumbai. Organizing pain management for cancer patients as a bottom line support was an undeniable need and an absolute necessity at that time. |
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| Care India Medical Society started a unique patient out reach program SATSEVA in December 1994 at Pune City to provide succor to the needy patients suffering from advanced cancer. It was a pioneering effort in cancer palliative care by Doctors reaching out to the patients at home and providing “Home Care” in India. The sole object was to improve the quality of life whatsoever be the physical / material limitations. |
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| Ever since, SATSEVA has grown from strength to strength. Even after eighteen years “Home Care” continues to be our strength even now. Over the years a large number of patients and their families have been the beneficiaries. In this human endeavour to mitigate pain and suffering, all the services have been delivered totally free of cost right at the patient’s doorstep. |
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| This type of effort is perhaps first of its kind in India and SATSEVA is India’s first Home Care Programs. |
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The services rendered are:
- Administering oral morphine along with other adjuvant drugs to bring Cancer pain adequately under control. While administering oral morphine, there are some side effects which are required to be controlled by doctors during the first eight to ten days till such time the patient develops tolerance to the side effects of the drugs. During this period, our doctors have to visit the newly registered patients every day. Once a patient is stabilized and the dosage of drugs is established, the patient is visited two to three times a week or as the need may be. Our home care programs work on these principles of providing adequate pain management.
- Families are trained, equipped with supportive care equipment, counseled for emotional needs and psychologically prepared to cope with the changing situations during the last stages.
- Everything that is possible to ensure patient’s comfort and respect patient’s faith and beliefs for dignity of life during terminal stages of cancer are catered for and provided.
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| For over decade and a half years, SATSEVA has been providing these services right at the patient’s doorstep free of cost with the encouragement and financial support of philanthropic donors. |