cancer hospital Archives

CDF PATIENT TRANSPORT CHARITY – Sri Lanka ‘FEEL GOOD’ SURVIVAL STORIES… OUR REWARD Baby Viku Indra Viku’s story is one of many. This 2 year old boy with a brain tumor needed to attend the main Cancer hospital which was 6 hours away. His mother was unemployed and did not have the means to bring Viku to the hospital. CDF came to the rescue to save his life with multiple trips regardless of the distance, time and cost. Living 200km away from the hospital, Viku’s mother battling poverty in addition to her own health issues was a daunting task. Surviving cancer after gruelling treatment is a huge milestone in a child’s life. CDF takes pride in giving life changing support to children like Viku by receiving the treatment they need on time to extend their lives and resume living a normal life again. Little Kusal Little Kusal was only 8 ...

Jayam Wijayaratnam Cancer Care Center ‘Good death’ and the necessity of aesthetics Source : sundayobserver My friend, Chelvadurai Anjalendran has been talking to me about his ‘cancer hospital project’ for quite some time, sending me on and off images of its interior and the construction process via WhatsApp. But living in Delhi and not having seen the site, I could not fully visualise what he had imagined this space should be like. However, knowing his work, I naturally assumed it would be an aesthetic and architectural masterpiece worth talking about at some point in time. It is only recently I paid attention to its benefactors. I learned that the 100-bed hospital, officially called ‘Jayam Wijayaratnam Cancer Care Center’ is named after long-time Negombo resident, businessman and local politician, the late Jayam Wijayaratnam. Vision He had a vision to build a hospital of this kind after witnessing the hardships of cancer patients, ...