President's Remarks
Amalendu Pal- Honorary Member and Board President
To maintain the nation’s competitive position in the world economy and provide greater opportunity to our younger citizens there is a need to be proactive and help institutions respond to policymakers’ concerns about cost, quality, care and especially impact attainment. It is essential need to review the circumstances and examine how medical care institutions conduct themselves and exhibit quality of care with a high degree of transparency, compliance, and accountability.
There is a term called ‘Cancer’, without a doubt, cancer turns sounds of life upside down. Cancer changes everything. The diagnosis may make patient feel worried, sad, confused, or even angry. And in addition to the physical difficulties, there are emotional and financial issues that the patient must learn to manage.
The team of Cancer Care of Indian Association of Blood Cancer and Allied Diseases (IABCD) will help every patient understand the challenges that are a part of living with cancer and provide him/ her with the tools he/she needs to cope better with this experience. Importantly, patient will learn that he/she is not alone —there are sources of support available to suffering individual, and many people have made this journey before someone is diagnosed with cancer.
Indian Association of Blood Cancer and Allied Diseases is a national non-profit organization — has helped people with cancer and their loved ones with exactly these kinds of challenges. We provide professional counseling, medical care and services, educational programmes, and referrals to helpful resources. Due to economic reasons no one has been refused for services even a large number of patients are served without any fee or charges. Our oncology social workers know that when someone is first diagnosed, it seems overwhelming. From the moment of diagnosis, life will never be the same. But the advice and care provided in the medical centre give the patients and their families enough tools which they need to truly live with cancer.
People diagnosed with cancer face a whole range of concerns about proper medical care, treatment protocol, finances and emotional issues. One of the biggest challenges for people with cancer is learning all the complex medical aspects of the disease. As the science of treating cancer has advanced, researchers have developed better, more effective treatments, which mean patients have more choices than they did a few decades ago.
Cancer care is an expensive illness.Meeting such goals will not be easy, particularly in the face of economic issues that medical centres confront today. Today’s environment for quality care—where change is a constant, existing practices may no longer work, and new opportunities manifest themselves unexpectedly—may constitute a “new normal” for care givers. Treatment protocol models, for example, need to be rethought, with attention to both efficiency and productivity. In short, both board management and medical team must address the complex issues on today’s agendas. While boards should remain focused on long-term strategic issues, today’s challenges may require a new paradigm of board engagement in close cooperation with expert medical team in such areas as economic way of diagnosis the disease, process development, treatment protocol development, strategic finance in medical research, and academic oversight. Truly strategic thinking is needed.
We welcome thoughts from all stakeholders and well wishers of suffering humanity about how we can best serve the needs of cancer care. We invite government bodies, civil society, corporate as well as individual to join with us and to help Indian Association of Blood Cancer and Allied Diseases continue to help and serve the community affected by cancer specially “Blood Cancer and Blood Disorder”.
