MEET OUR TEAM
Our team includes patients, families, friends, medical professionals, nurses, social workers, volunteers, spiritual advisors and our support team.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 inpatient facility of Ganga Prem Hospice includes cancer specialists, general practitioners or regional medical officers, non-allopathic specialists and therapists who are 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 form part of their team.
Dr AK Dewan
M.S. M.Ch. (surgical oncologist)
The Medical Director of Ganga Prem Hospice
Dr Rupali Dewan
Gynecologist
Dr Taranjit Singh
MBBS, MSc (UK), G,CertPallCare (Spore) Palliative care consultant
3. 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.
Nani Ma
4. Administration
Administration is the backbone of any organization. Our team of experts help us to streamline the daily works.
The secretarial and public relations staff look after the files and records of the hospice work, coordination of the team’s activities and public relations.
Pooja Dogra
Chief Of Operations (COO)
Subedar Major MP Pandey (retd)
Manager
Durgesh Prasad Bijalwan
Senior Accounts Officer
5. Nurses, Medical Social Worker, Pharmacist and Nursing Assistants
Nurses are trained in palliative care of 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
Jaya Negi
Nursing Administrative Officer
Anjita Nath
Social Worker
6. Nurses
Administration is the backbone of any organization. Our team of experts help us to streamline the daily works.
The secretarial and public relations staff look after the files and records of the hospice work, coordination of the team’s activities and public relations.
Philomina Mathai
Mamta Krishali
Renu
Sheetal Kaintura
Sarita Bhandari
Shalini Thapliyal
Lalita Awasthi
Manisha Joshi
7. Support Team and Volunteers
The support team includes those working in the fields of publicity and fundraising. Volunteers include emotional support groups who mobilize resources and may organize equipment like mattresses, wheelchairs, commodes and back rests etc. Other functions of volunteers can include befriending patients and taking them for outings, etc.
Vandana Negi
Rajendra Rana
