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Mr Anil Gupta

Administrative Coordinator,
Ganga Prem Hospice

Mr Anil Kumar Gupta (left) at registration

Anil Gupta is one of Ganga Prem Hospice's most active volunteers in Rishikesh, supervising the administrative, accounting and report-making work, assisting with the cancer clinic, and organising the local-level publicity of the Ganga Prem Hospice cancer clinics. Anil has effortlessly taken to managing the administrative work and even though he is a volunteer, he works almost full time for the Hospice.

Anil Gupta started his career as an electrical engineer, completing his doctorate and working in Canada, before moving to Singapore to be a computer engineering University teacher. Althouhg he was away from India for several years, his interests stayed firmly rooted in meditation and the spiritual aspects of life. Supported by a very understanding and affable wife, Anil returned to Rishikesh in India to have more time and solitude for meditation. He lives in Rishikesh with his wife and elderly mother, taking care of his family and the Ganga Prem Hospice work.

"My experience working with Ganga Prem Hospice so far has been very good and I truly enjoy being with the cancer patients", says Anil.

The computer engineer has a very clear understanding, a polite and humble demeanour and gets on well with all the members of the Hospice team. The Hospice team much depends on for his ability to analyse situations insightfully. Anil is always ready to take on any work and invite members of the team over for a cup of tea.


Ganga Prem Hospice Team
Our team includes patients, families, friends, medical professionals, nurses, social workers, volunteers, spiritual advisors and our support team.

Our team is gradually growing but, as we are still a small team and do not have all the staff that we will need in the future, most of our members work in more than one capacity. The main categories of the team are as follows:

1. The Patient and his Family and Friends
An important theme of palliative medicine is that the patient is the focus of care. At Ganga Prem Hospice the patients are, therefore, given repeated opportunities to actively participate in team decision-making. Not doing so can result in care plans that are inappropriate and less likely to answer the patient’s needs. For the same reason the patient’s family and friends are also important members of the team.

2. Medical Professionals
The professional palliative care team at the in patient facility of Ganga Prem Hospice will include cancer specialists, general practitioners or regional medical officers, non-allopathic specialists and therapists who will be full time or part time workers associated with the hospice.

The cancer specialists are in overall charge of the hospice and address medical as well as administrative issues. Other medical and secretarial staff will form part of their team.

a) The Medical Director of Ganga Prem Hospice:
Dr. A.K. Dewan, M.S. M.Ch.(Surgical Oncology)
Other cancer specialists: Dr. D.C. Doval, Dr. A. Goil
Other doctors: Dr. (Mrs.) Rupali Dewan (gynaecologist)

 
     
Dr. Dewan
Dr. Rupali Dewan
Dr. Doval
Dr. Goel
 

b) The general practitioners or resident medical officers residing in nearby villages or districts can visit regularly. They can be trained in palliative care programmes.
Dr Rajesh Saxena (gynaecologist)

     
Dr Rajesh Saxena
 
 
 
 
 
 

c) Non allopathic specialists from ayurvedic, homeopathic and other Cam Therapies will provide holistic care to patients.

Ayurveda:

Renu Gulati
Dr JP Rathi

     
Renu Gulati
Dr JP Rathi
 
 
 
 

 

d) Other specialists from therapeutic systems like physiotherapy, yoga and nutrition will pay regular visits.

3. Nurses
Nurses will be trained in palliative care to patients. Their most important functions are:

a) Assessment of needs
b) General nursing care, including dressing, pressure area care, bowel care, venupuncture and administration of drugs

Mrs Sicily Kutti Sebastion

     
Mrs Sebastion
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

4. Social workers and volunteers
Social workers and volunteers include emotional support groups who mobilize resources and may organize equipment like mattresses, wheelchairs, commodes and back rests etc. They will maintain liaison with the patient’s family members and medical professionals. They will also provide a counselling service for patients and families. Other functions of volunteers can include befriending patients and taking them for outings etc.

Sarojini Murthy
Gita Kukreti
Kamala Bhasin

 
   
     
Sarojini Murthy
Gita Kukreti
Kamala Bhasin
 
 

 

5. Spiritual advisors
The spiritual advisors in the hospice are there to strengthen or even sometimes to awaken the patient’s faith in a Supreme Power who can help him when human help will inevitably fail. Those who already have faith in the Divine need help and encouragement in their traditional prayers and practices while meditation and contemplation can also help those whose minds are trying to understand the enigma of death and the possibility of a framework of Being beyond the universe we perceive with our outer senses. Whatever the religion or belief of the patient may be, the spiritual staff always offer respect and reassure the patient in that belief. The staff act as sensitive and caring friends to the patients and their relatives and as such offer them unreserved love and companionship in the delicate field of their spiritual faith. As spirituality brings inner security and peace to the patient, it enables him to accept physical suffering and death with the minimum of emotional and mental disturbance. It is therefore a very important part of palliative care and the presence of spiritual staff in a hospice is essential.

Swamini Pramananda
Nani Ma

 
     
Swamini Pramananda
Nani Ma
 
 
 
 
 

 

6. Administration and Management Staff
The administration and management staff look after practical matters of administration and management. They will work in close collaboration with Trust members and the medical professionals.

Mr. Raghuvira Ghai - Trustee
Mr. Suresh Kathpalia - accountant
Mr. Yogeshwar Prasad - assistant manager

     
Mr Ghai
Suresh Kathpalia
Yogeshwar Prasad
 
 


7. Secretarial and Public Relations
The secretarial and public relations staff look after the files and records of the Trust work, coordination of the team’s activities, public relations and fundraising.

Pooja Dogra - Secretarial and Public Relations

     
Pooja Dogra
 
 
 
 
 
 

8. Support team
The support team includes those working in the fields of publicity and fund raising.

Rishikesh and Uttarakhand
Alan Neachel - graphic design
Anil Gupta - public relations and administration
Anjana Dharnidarka - web site manager
Michael and Pallavi Duffy - design of publicity and fund raising materials
Steven Lopresti - secretarial and public relations

     
Anil Gupta
Steven Lopresti
Alan Neachel
 
 

Delhi
Anuj Gupta - electronic media and general support
Meena Davur - general support and fundraising
Neeraj Dang - electronic newsletter design
Pranava Bienenstein - web site design
Raj Rani - general support
Shailendra Arora - electronic media and general support

     
Meena Davur
Anuj Gupta
Pranava Bienenstein
Neeraj Dang

8. World wide volunteer team
The world wide volunteer team includes many friends and well wishers who help out in the fields of publicity and fund raising when ever they are able.

Bhavani-Maria Annibal, Bharata-Peter Vestergaard, Duncan Huilin, Gabrielle Steen, Kaili Blacklock-Hind, Jonquil Cooper, Maddelena Fortunati, Maggie McKeen, Manuela Toso, Mason Bennett, Nora Monticelli, Roberta Trussi, Ruth Fellner, Solveig McIntosh, Todd Sykes,

 

 
 
 
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