As an undergraduate student, I first visited Wenlock District hospital in 1978 and continued my postgraduate studies in paediatrics in Kasturba Medical College. Later, I joined as a lecturer and continued to work there as a paediatric specialist and Head of the department and subsequently retired in 2018.
What can we do to enable our children to survive cancer?
Why my child has cancer? What have I done to deserve this pain of seeing my beloved child go through the excruciating pain of being cancer affected, denying her/him of all the joys of childhood? These are questions that are posed by parents of the affected children we work with. In some cases, parents repeatedly ask such questions when their much-loved child takes her/his last painful gasps of breath and loses her/his battle for survival (heart-rending experience for them). Unfortunately, there are no answers to such questions as of now.
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Joy for little ones
Every child has a right to play or leisure. This right is often denied to children who are under long-term and frequent admission in the hospital for serious ailments such as cancer. One method adopted by us at CEDSE CCC was to distribute toys to all children (not only children directly under out care) whenever an event is arranged in the oncology wards of the three hospitals we cover. The ward would transform into a play centre with children forgetting their pain for some time and parents sharing in their joy. Age appropriate and safe toys do bring some joy into the lives of children.
CEDSE- Care Child Cancer 