Question

Collect information on any two organisation working for a cancer patient name the organisation ways in which they have such patients how do they generate funds etc

Answer 1

Answer:

The two of many organisations working for cancer in India are Cancer Foundation of India and Indian Cancer Society.  

Explanation:

Cancer Foundation of India, Kolkata  

• It is a non-government organization (NGO), committed to prevent cancer as a means to control cancer in India.

• The organization has a group of motivated professionals and strives to introduce an approach change for the prevention of Cancer by improving the methods of communication and advocacy. It also imparts new knowledge on India by various Research work in the field of Cancer.

• The organization also organizes various support group programs, publishes various whitepapers and articles to train the health staffs and clinicians to carry out cancer prevention campaigns.

• It also strives to provide support to the cancer survivors by providing the clinical, counselling, psychological and social support they require during the post-treatment period. This is due to the fact that the attention to the survivors is one of the most important but neglected areas in the journey of Cancer remediation.

• It has received overwhelming support from various international healthcare organisations like IARC (WHO), American Cancer Society and national healthcare organisations like ICMR, Govt of India and the state government of West Bengal and north east states, in their cancer remediation and preventive initiatives.

Indian Cancer Society  

• In the year 1951, Indian Cancer Society was founded by Dr. D.J. Jussawalla and Mr. Naval Tata for care, cure detection of those affected with this disease and also to raise awareness to prevent this disease.

• It is India's first voluntary, non-profit, National Organization to carry out such course of action in this field.

• The organisation has been doing great work in fighting this deadly disease in the country and acts as the ray of hope to the underprivileged cancer patients, who can’t even afford two meals a day, let alone cancer treatment.
• The society depends upon the funds provided by public support for running its treatment and cancer prevention programs.

       

        Activities of Indian Cancer Society:  

• It creates nationwide awareness of cancer to educate the masses about its risk factors, detection at the early stages, treatment of this disease and survivorship.

• It also helps in early detection through cancer detection centers and mobile cancer detection camps across India, especially for the underprivileged. Providing funds for the treatment of cancer for poor cancer patients across India.

• Providing support during and after treatment to poor cancer patients through accommodation, rehabilitation, and survivor support groups.  

• The organization gathers and collates date from the regions of Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur and Aurangabad to maintain a cancer registry. This helps in providing an analytical and project report for the occurrence of Cancer in the region.

• It also publishes a communication medium for the medical fraternity to provide the research findings, called as the Indian Journal of Cancer.