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At
Santhiniketan, Chittilappally, Thrissur, dedicated to the care of
terminally ill cancer patients, the medicines are usually painkillers and
sleeping pills. Or are they
the loving care and prayers of the sisters who run the centre?
The
poor and abandoned patients who are discharged from Amala Cancer Centre,
Thrissur, find a place at Santhiniketan, run by these nuns.
They are usually directed to the centre by the nurses of the
hospital. The 6 nuns who work
in the centre bathe them, clean their cloths, feed them, give them
medicines and comfort them with their loving care and presence.
There
is no specific menu at Santhiniketan, which has facility to accommodate 20
patients. Different patients
need different diets and some even needs to be fed through tubes attached
to the stomach. Still others
may need fruit juice or rice in paste form prepared in a mixer.
Those
who recover and go from the Centre are rare, for almost all the patients
come there when it is almost certain that medicine can do nothing to help
them. When the patients die,
the relatives are informed. Some
come to claim the body, otherwise the nuns arrange to have it buried in
the Panchayat cemetery.
These
nuns led by Superior Sister Norbat usually run old age homes.
They started Santhiniketan in 1990 based on the request of other
nuns of their seminary who were working in Amala Hospital.
Considerate philanthropists provide expenses towards medicine and
food.
Courtesy: P.M. (text), Jijo John (photo), Vanitha, May 16-31, 1998
Contributed by: Administrator
