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What is Terminal Illness and Care?
We divide Terminal Care in to
1. Persons in last stages of AIDS
2. Persons in last stages of Cancer
3. Persons in last stages of Brain Death Due to Poisoning Road Accidents
4. Multi organ failures. Common End Point of all Medical Diseases.
The NEED
We have often come across many families, who spend huge amounts on Treatment. Their initial enthusiasm, for "going all out". "leaving on stone unturned whatever the money required" & such highly emotional expressions do not last long.
Over a period of time all the resources of the person are exhausted there is a change in the behavior and attitude of the relatives & friends. Many of them avoid all contact with the afflicted family.
On knowing that the person would not recover at all the family is totally "out casted" & "debarred " from the relatives community & society in general.
The plight of the members of such family is horribly pitiable. They have to endure many more hardships in their daily life, & in their daily routine. So much about the immediate family of the afflicted or the ill-fated person.
Mind you! I have tried to present only a distant glimpse of this serious matter. In reality, all adjectives & descriptive term's fall short of giving true picture, which is much more abominable.
What about the "ill fated person"
We really have to stretch our imagination to be in to the shoes of the said person & experience the humility faced by him/every single minute of his/her remaining existence.
The person has gone through life like everyone else; serving the family, doing jobs & professions, in turn earning
love & affection from the family, respect from the society, & the list goes on & on & on.
Now! The said person is languishing in bed, nobody to care for, nobody to talk after, all kinds of obnoxious smell emanating from the excreta.
If at all anybody attends to this sick person he does it with extreme reluctance, muttering all kinds of disgraceful unprintable curses.
It is such a shoddy affair for the person, having basic human dignity & self respect.
Even the family members totally boycott the person they do not spend any thing for the ill-fated
person. (literally) The most common sentence heard is "what is the use! Anyhow he is going to die!".
I have seen a wife paying tuition fees of children rather than paying for her
"ill fated husband". Treatment.
Practically the person is discarded to die.
How many such people are there? The number is unbelievable there are Thousands of them right here in Hyderabad.
Is it a matter of pride, that India has highest numbers of persons afflicted with the dreaded AIDS?
NO! On the contrary it is matter of great concern.
It is here that we the members of Akankssha Charitable Trust feel that a great deal of work can be done.
We would take care of at least a few hundred of such ill-fated people in their last days of existence.
We would take good care of them so that they die in Comfort & Peace.
At least they would have
A Death with Dignity & self-respect
At
" VISHRANTI"
The Terminal Care Center of Akankssha Charitable Trust. |
