Volunteers, the strength of palliative care movement in India
A visiting doctor said, “We cannot get volunteers in our country”.
May be that is true, but we find it hard to believe. How could any country not have people who have goodness and compassion welling up within them who are deprived of a way of giving it expression?
At Pallium India, we have volunteers doing all kinds of work – from hands-on nursing to governance and management. See this picture showing 8 year old Munnu and a young dental surgeon, Dr Manu, helping out with mailing of about 4500 copies of “Sahayatra”, our monthly Malayalam magazine – a job that takes at least 350 man-hours a month and that is all done by volunteers (including the editor’s job that is done by Dr Ajayan).
Thank you, all palliative care volunteers! We are so proud of you.
Great work Munnu and Manu! Keep it up!