At 8.30 a.m. each day, P. Shobhana, a native of Koovode at Taliparamba in Kannur, leaves home to be by the side of a few person who desperately look forward to her visit. Her long day, spent by the side of bedridden patients, ends by 9 p.m. at times. This has been her routine for the past 17 years.
Shobhana is not alone in the venture. A team from Sanjeevani Santhvanaveedu, a trust formed by her and her brother at 7th Mile in Taliparamba, accompanies her in the noble mission that was triggered by a personal crisis. The trauma the family went through when Shobhana’s brother’s wife was diagnosed with cancer prompted her to leave her job as a teacher in Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and dedicate her life to palliative care. “We started the palliative unit to ensure that no one goes without care and medical help,” she says, emphasising the dire need for daily care for people in distress.
