TRUST - Introduction
The Ganga Prem Hospice project is a project of the Delhi-based Shradha Cancer Care Trust. The Trust is a public charity set up to establish desperately needed cancer care facilities in Northern India. Shradha Cancer Care Trust was founded by the eminent oncologist Dr A. K. Dewan from Delhi. Dr Dewan is the head of the Surgical Oncology Department at the Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute in North Delhi. He has been working with cancer patients for more than 30 years and has been deeply moved by the physical agony and mental anguish which confronts both the patients and their families. The lack of cancer facilities in India, where there are 1,000,000 new cancer cases every year, has been a source of great concern to him. In November 2005, this sincere concern led him to establish the Shradha Cancer Care Trust. The Trust is a public charity dedicated to creating medical facilities in general and in particular cancer care centres.Ganga Prem Hospice
As its first project, the Trust has chosen to create a much needed hospice for terminally ill cancer patients. The Ganga Prem Hospice, which has a spiritual and holistic orientation, has been constructed on the bank of the river Ganga, near the town of Rishikesh in Uttrakhanda. Dr. Dewan and his Trust members have been joined in their efforts by spiritual adepts and holistic therapists from the area.SHRADHA CANCER CARE TRUST
Shradha Cancer Care Trust was founded in Delhi in November 2005. The object of the Trust is to promote much needed cancer facilities in North India.1) Trust Structure
Mr DS Negi (IAS Retd)
Chairman
Shri DS Negi is an IAS officer who retired as principal Secretary (Health & Family Welfare), Govt. of NCT of Delhi. He has had a distinguished service record at both state and national level. He has authored many policy documents, reports, articles, travelogues and even books.
Dr AK Dewan, M.S., M.Ch.
Founder Trustee
Dr AK Dewan is Medical Director and Senior Surgeon at the Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, Delhi, India. He is wholeheartedly committed to care of cancer patients and is especially interested in palliative care for patients who are terminally ill.
Dr (Mrs) Rupali Dewan, MD
Founder Trustee
Dr Rupali Dewan is the Senior Gynecologist and Obstetrician in Safdarjung Hospital. This hospital is the biggest Central Government Hospital in India. Dr Dewan is actively involved in health care of underprivileged women.
Dr DC Doval, MD
Member
Dr DC Doval is the Chief of the Medical Oncology Department at Rajeev Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, Delhi, India. He is involved in multi institutional clinical research and is especially interested in hospice care. He was awarded the clinical excellence award in the field of Oncology by Wockhardt India Ltd in association with Howard Medical International.
Mr D Baijal
Member
Mr Baijal is the marketing manager in a private enterprise, 'National Peroxide'. He is interested in social service and particularly in helping poor and needy cancer patients.
Nani Ma
Member
Nani Ma is a sadhvi practicing meditation and spiritual study on the bank of the river Ganga. She is interested in the spiritual and emotional welfare of terminally ill cancer patients and their families.
Mr AK Banerjee
Member
Ambassador Arun Kumar Banerjee is an Indian Foreign Services officer, now retired after 38 years of active involvement in India's diplomatic relations. He has served variously as the Indian ambassador to Greece, Consular General in Sydey, Australia, Deputy High Commissioner in Canada, High Commissioner in Ghana, High Commissioner in the Maldives and in headquarters (Delhi).
Shri Subhash Kumar (IAS Retd)
Member
Shri Subhash Kumar ji has had a distinguished career in the Indian administrative services, particularly in service to the state of Uttarakhand. He has served at the pinnacle of the Uttarakhand state administrative services as the Chief Secretary of the state.
2) Registration Details
Registration Date: 28 November 2005 Registration Number: 9805 Place of Registration: Delhi, India3) Status of Trust
A public charitable institution.4) Mission Of Trust
To promote cancer care centres, hospitals and diagnostic centres for all kinds of investigations and for treatment of all kinds of illnesses.GANGA PREM HOSPICE
The Ganga Prem Hospice Trust was set up in London in June 2008 to help fund raise and find skilled volunteers for the Ganga Prem Hospice.1) Trust Structure
Swami Saradananda
Member
Swami Saradananada is the well known author of a number of books on yoga. She lives and teaches yoga, meditation and pranayama in London where she has lived for the last few years. Having spent many years in the Himalayas she is very interested in helping to found a Cancer Hospice in that area.
Caroline Tautz
Member
Caroline Tautz lives in London, U.K. She has a BA degree in Fine Art and an MA in Dance Studies. She has been teaching yoga since 1996 and also practices as a bodywork massage therapist. She is married with two children and three stepchildren.
Jenny Beeken
Member
Jenny Beeken studied Physics at Exeter University, and then worked in London teaching hospitals and secondary schools in England for the next 9 years. After travelling to India in 1979 and 1981 to study yoga, she started teaching and has since founded a yoga school and written 6 books.
Vikas Mahajan
Member
Vikas Mahajan lives in Manchester. He has completed his schooling from India and came to UK to complete his MBA from Manchester Business School, UK. He currently works with a financial services organisation, is married with 2 children, and has been supporting Ganga Prem Hospice for a number of years.
2) Registration Details
Registration date: May 2010 Registration number: 1136032 Place of Registration: London, U.K.3) Status of Trust
Registered U.K. Charity4) Mission Of Trust
To raise funds and find skilled volunteers to help with the Ganga Prem Hospice project in Rishikesh, India.
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