Strategic planning and finances

Ganga Prem Hospice: Phase One
The Ganga Prem Hospice project is now in its fifth year of planning and operations. A successful monthly cancer clinic is running in Rishikesh where approximately 70-100 patients receive free medicine and consultations each month. Additional cancer clinics are held in Haridwar and Dehradun from time to time. The home care programme is also up and running and serves about 25-30 terminally ill patients at any one time.

Plans have now been made to commence the first phase of Ganga Prem Hospice in October 2011. The first phase will comprise the ground floor of the three-floor Hospice, and will include basic amenities and beds for 5-6 patients. An out-patient clinic is also planned, which will serve the local community. The estimated construction cost is Rs. 2,02,52,800 ($450,063 US).

Ganga Prem Hospice strategic business plan
The Ganga Prem Hospice project is now in its sixth year of planning and operations. The Hospice is on its way to providing free of cost in-patient palliative care and spiritual support to terminally ill cancer patients. While the Hospice will eventually be a state of the art 30-bed facility by the river Ganga in Rishikesh, the first phase of its in-patient operations will be as a 5-bed Hospice where oncologists, alternate medicine therapists, psychologists and spiritual counselors will provide their services to end stage cancer patients.

The estimated construction cost for the 30-bed Hospice is Rs. 4,68,60,800 ($1,041,352 US).

The annual running cost for a 5-bed Hospice facility is estimated at Rs. 61 lakhs approximately ($145,238 US).