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Marking a important displacement toward professionalising the attraction economy, the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), Kerala, launched precocious palliative and semipermanent attraction services, including geriatric care, connected Saturday.
The initiative, which follows 2 years of intensive discussions, has been launched successful collaboration with the Swashreya Mahila Sewa Sangham (SMSS), Pallium India, and Health Action by People (HAP).
It aims astatine deploying a specialised workforce of 30 women trained to supply compassionate, high-quality location attraction for patients with chronic illnesses.
The programme seeks to code a captious shortage of skilled caregivers successful Thiruvananthapuram.
As Kerala faces a rapidly ageing colonisation and a increasing ‘time poverty’ among families incapable to supply full-time attraction for the elderly, this archetypal batch of 30 women underwent a rigorous three-week applicable and theoretical grooming programme nether Pallium India.
Their grooming covered analyzable aesculapian subjects indispensable for managing conditions specified arsenic dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and changeable betterment and geriatric attraction needs.
Inaugurating the programme, erstwhile Chief Secretary S.M. Vijayanand said professionalising the care-giving assemblage not lone ensured diligent dignity but besides provided a sustainable way for women seeking autarkic livelihoods.
M.R. Rajagopal, chairman, Pallium India; Sairu Philip, Principal, Kannur Medical College; and Nalini Nayak, laminitis of SEWA, were present.
For much details telephone 8089419921 oregon email smss.palliativecare@gmail.com oregon sojourn the SEWA office.
