We wish we had come to GPH sooner

A patient’s wife recounts how her husband would have to be held down by four or five people just to make him stop writhing in pain. Neither he nor the family could sleep at night. Compare that with the patient walking about leisurely in the corridors looking at the expanse of Ganga ji and the forest seen across from Ganga Prem Hospice. It is a world of difference that pain relief can make to people’s lives.

Patient Deepak with his wife and daughter at Ganga Prem Hospice

A patient, his wife and eight-year-old daughter have been living at Ganga Prem Hospice since May 2021, as the patient, suffering from advanced stage cancer of the buccal mucosa, found no relief anywhere from the excruciating pain that he suffered from the disease.

“My husband used to thrash about, tear his clothes and hit himself against the wall due to the severe pain he had to endure—sometimes we would wish God would give him death than let him suffer”, says Seema, wife of Deepak, who is now happy to see her husband amble about in the hospice corridor and watch television in his room.

Deepak’s daughter Vrinda is delighted to be reunited with her parents, as she felt very lonely living with her relatives in her home city of Delhi when her parents came away to Rishikesh for her father’s inpatient care at Ganga Prem Hospice.

She loves taking a ride in the hospice lift with her mother and shares fun moments with carers of other patients in the hospice.

The adults around her at GPH also love to indulge little Vrinda, giving the child a warm and protective atmosphere to live in.