Cancer patients suffer from devastating physical, mental, and emotional trauma. Mostly, for poor patients, the lack of funds to afford proper treatment and medication becomes the cause of their demise. Sukruthi Charitable Trust raises funds to offer complete medical care and financial support to such patients and helps them fight the blight.

Chemotherapy Ports

Chemotherapy is a treatment that involves combinations of drugs and uses powerful chemicals to destroy cancer cells or control them from multiplying in a certain body part.

A chemo port is a small device that is implanted under your skin below the collar bone to allow easy access to your bloodstream. The advantage of this vein-access device is that chemotherapy medications can be delivered directly into the vein, eliminating the need for multiple needle pricks at every chemotherapy cycle. It can be used if you need transfusions of red blood cells or platelets.

A chemo port is very beneficial to a patient because it decreases the anxiety of multiple pricks, decreases the chances of extravasation injuries and thrombophlebitis, leading to hassle-free treatments. A chemo port is now the standard practice of care all around the world for patients receiving chemotherapy. It helps the cancer patients by bringing ease and comfort for taking chemotherapy, thereby increasing the compliance for treatment, especially for children.  But it is still quite expensive in India making it unaffordable for poor patients forcing them to go through chemotherapy without the chemo port.

A chemo port would typically cost upwards of Rs. 25,000 in a private hospital in India. We provide those ports (absolutely free of cost) to children who need to undergo chemotherapy but can’t afford the high cost.

Chronic Kidney Disease

Kidney diseases such as kidney dysfunction and failure are devastating and require quick treatment. There are different ways of providing dialysis to such patients.

Palliative care is the active total care applicable from the time of diagnosis, aimed at improving the quality of life of patients and their families facing serious life-limiting illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering from pain and other physical symptoms as well as psychological, social and spiritual distress through socially acceptable and affordable interventions.

Palliative medicine may not change the harsh realities of advanced cancer, but its timely provision will ensure that distressing symptoms are alleviated, and that the quality of a patient’s journey is maintained to every extent possible.

Sukruthi Home Palliative Care

Sukruthi Charitable Trust in partnership with the Dept of Pain and Palliative Medicine, St. John’s Medical College Hospital recently launched a home-based palliative care service. This service is absolutely free-of-cost including medications and disposables.

This service aims to improve the quality of life of the patient from every angle. It includes the following goals: