Parents and Families
Overview
Patient and family education materials provide educational information to help individuals and families facing childhood cancer.
Resources
- About the department (English)
- Welcome note (Hindi, English)
- FAQ Cancer in children (Hindi)
- Care at home (Hindi)
- Care at Home (Nepali)
- Nutrition during cancer treatment (English)
- Nutrition during cancer treatment (Hindi)
- Psychosocial services
- Playroom and Teaching
- Accomodation during treatment (Home away from Home, Grace, Ashray)
Nutrition During Cancer Therapy
Importance of Nutrition during cancer therapy is highlighted in the pdf document attached, please read for details.
Play and Teaching Activities During Therapy
Playroom Teacher and Pediatric Counsellor, provide much needed support to the children and their caregivers during cancer therapy.
GRACE – A four-floor building, not too far from RGCI, that children with cancer and their parents call home for the duration of treatment at the hospital. The home has 16 clean, self-sufficient rooms, common kitchens with piped gas on each floor and play area cum office space on the ground floor. Located in a somewhat busy neighbourhood, it could pass off as yet another brick and mortar place if one were to see it only from the outside.
Going in, as always, reveals more, it is philanthropy at its best.
In 2013, the Krishnans found their 6-year-old son had lymphoma. They came to Dr Gauri Kapoor, now heading the Department of Paediatric Oncology at RGCI and never looked back. When the treatment was over, they wanted to do more than making a one-time gift.
Home away from home (Grace)