For the first time in Dharan sub-metropolitan city, BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences has started the home treatment service for cancer patients.
The foundation aims to provide the regular or emergency treatment services needed by cancer patients easily to the general public. 'Home Based Hospice Care' service has been started.
The co-spokesman of the BP Foundation has been arranged to treat patients with cancer at home by a team of health workers targeting patients who are difficult to come to the hospital. Abhijeet Kumar has informed. Co-spokesperson Dr. this service is for the first time in Dharan apart from Kathmandu. Kumar says.
The Foundation believes in providing great relief to patients and their relatives who are facing the difficult situation of having to come to the hospital for treatment at a time when the pain of suffering due to cancer is unbearable and they are weak and confined at home.
co-spokesperson Dr. According to Kumar, in order to get this service, the general public can get the service in coordination with the oncology unit under the internal medicine department of the institute.
For this service, the establishment has currently set a fee of fifteen hundred per visit, while in the case of patients from poor families, it has been arranged to provide free services according to the rules provided by the establishment to poor patients. Currently, this service will be provided within Dharan sub-metropolitan city, the foundation said.
Co-spokesperson Dr. Kumar has informed that in this type of program where cancer patients will be treated at home, cancer-related trained nurses and doctors will provide levitation, symptom management, palliative management, emotional/spiritual support as well as family counseling.
