ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS 
SKILL TRANSFER EMPOWERS RURAL GIRL CHILDREN TO BECOME LEADERS IN PALLIATIVE CARE
That was a shiny Monday in December when five of us started off from Kosish The Hospice in a car for a medical camp for the poorest-of-the poor elderly persons and home visit near Abra, a remote village
in Pindrajhora, on the Jharkhand-West Bengal Border, navigated by a student of the Six Months  Geriatric and Palliative Nursing Aide Course on a two wheeler.


While travelling, the car and the two wheeler stopped to pick up another person on the two wheeler. I
noticed that it was a lady with a child on her lap. Both the vehicles continued their journey. At one point, I asked the navigator to shift the lady with the child to the car on safety grounds and I continued the rest of my journey on the two wheeler.

That was a different experience for me altogether.  Out of curiosity, I enquired about the lady with the child and gathered that she was the leader of the home care team from Kosish The Hospice.

Who is Chhunu?

She is Chhunu Mahato (30), hailing from Kathaltand Village in Purulia District, West Bengal. She got
married in 2015 and has two children. She is living with her In-laws. She has been associated with Kosish The Hospice since 2015.



 She passed the Six Months Geriatric and Palliative Nursing Aide Course in its first batch held in March
2021. She is the leader of their home care team.


Kosish The Hospice started the above course in 2020 and now they are running their 7th batch transferring nursing aide skill to nearly 40 rural girl children. The trained nursing assistants visit the patients in their own homes on a regular frequency.




Inspired by the success of the course there, MarieEugiene Centre for Human Development, Kozhikode, who are also NAPCAIM Organisational Member, started the course there and the first batch has already completed their first batch with 8 students.  They have started their second batch with10 students.  





The certificate distribution ceremony is proposed to be held on 15th January 2025. 

NAPCAIM encourages its Chapters and organisational members to enlarge its operation in other parts of the country as well.

This is likely to help geriatric and bed ridden patients in their respective areas.




MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY 2025

(Mr. K Radhakrishna Menon reporting from Pindrajhora, a remote village on the Jharkhand - West Bengal border)

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