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The Narcissus flower or Nargis in Hindi, Persian and Urdu poetry, represents the Donate l Volunteer Beloved’s eye. It is also the symbol of hope eternal, for its shy presence perfumes the air of the darkest winter and hints of brighter times ahead. Cancer Survivors similarly are living symbols of hope and happiness. NARGIS Newsletter of the Indian Cancer Society, Delhi. Issue 2: September, 2018 Website : www.indiancancersocietydelhi.in Our Survivor Volunteers are in attendance at the Cancer Detection Centre following Clinics: No.42, Babar Road, New Delhi. IRCH Tel : 23716941 Let’s Mondays 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Talk Dear Readers, End of an Era Cancer Sahyog 02:30 p.m. - 04:30 p.m. The last few months at ICS have Shri K. K. Mehta ( 01.01.1925 - 27.03.2018 ) Fridays 02:30 p.m. - 04:30 p.m. Indian Cancer Society, been happily full of activity, target achievements and Our much loved Founder, Mr. K. K. Mehta, Co-ordinator : Deepa Khemani Mob. +91- 9873440902 B 63-64, Basement, South Extension Part-II, events. We began our year with a super successful hung up his boots on the 27th March after a Ranjit Kaur Mob. +91- 9871488975 New Delhi - 110049 Survivors Day event, followed by a evening of brilliant long and illustrious career. Much will be said AIIMS (Fifth Floor Breast Clinic) Tel : 011- 49424723 music by the Char Yaar Group. We’ve attended many about the magnificent edifice he built in the Wednesday & Thursdays 02:00 p.m.- 04:00 p.m. Email : [email protected] service of suffering humanity , but not many Saturdays 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. stimulating work-shops and have even held some of Co-ordinator : Rekha Gulabani Mob. +91- 9810862424 Prashanti our own. Our workshop on “Role Play “ was a first for know that Mr Mehta’s razor sharp vision first Asha Aggarwal Mob. +91- 9210751831 “Diagnostic, Healing and Rehab Center” most of our volunteers and much appreciated and focussed on the Indian Cancer Society. He insisted on a professi-onally run institution where Cancer Awareness Army R&R Hospital (An initiative of INDIA CANCER SOCIETY for applauded. and Primary Screening were given the importance they deserved. Tuesdays 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. LALA DIWAN CHAND TRUST) Like every year, the third quarter of the year is when Co-ordinator : Rashmi Vohra Mob. +91- 9871554777 11/70, Vikram Vihar, Lajpat Nagar IV, we hold our Annual Seminar. This year, we have a topic He demanded complete transparency in all dealings, leaving no Beena Singh Mob. +91- 9811682705 room for any funny business. Nothing, certainly no ego, stood in the New Delhi - 110 024 which is the “ flavour of the season ” - Artificial way of him achieving his dreams. He was the only CEO who demoted Batra Hospital Tel : 011-41729393 Intelligent, or AI as it is popularly called. Of course, our himself regularly, going from being Chairman to Vice Chairman . Mondays & Wednesdays 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Email : [email protected] focus will be on AI in the Health Sector. Co-ordinator : Usha Ohri Mob. +91- 9810366982 At ICS he appointed able deputies and was a living example of his Artificial Intelligence is a vast and complex subject. To Sandhya Gupta Mob. +91- 9818230518 Cancer Insurance value systems. It was with great joy that he visited our new offices in Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute & Research Centre, Rohini our limited understanding, it has been created by December 2017 and with the greatest pride, we showed him around. Cancer treatment is expensive. Avail of Cancer human intelligence, programmed with necessary Mondays & Fridays 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Today we stand in the shadows , praying that all that he stood for, his Coordinator : Kulvinder Lamba Mob. +91- 9811570417 Insurance for yourself and your family algorithms . The machines are now endowed with the humanity and humility, will percolate to each one of us that works R.R. Mishra Mob. +91- 9821879796 intellectual process of the human mind - the ability to selflessly in ICS. B L Kapur Memorial Hospital, Pusa Road reason, discover a pattern and meaning from a mass Tuesdays & Fridays 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Call for Volunteers of pre fed data, to generalise this and give unbiased Co-ordinator : Sangita Malhotra Mob. +91- 9810016547 Newly diagnosed cancer patients need hope, opinions. H e a l t h B e n e f i t s o f Krishna Mehta Mob +91- 9911178654 courage and strength while they go through Indian Cancer Society has been aware of the Delhi State Cancer Institute cancer treatments. complexity of the subject, but not its existing scope or VOLUNTEERING Fridays 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. If you are a present/future capacity. Since AI is already in Volunteering reduces the body’s Co-ordinator : Sangita Malhotra Mob. +91- 9810016547 cancer survivor stress and also releases endorphins operation in Healthcare, it is necessary for us to Yogita Singh Mob +91- 8447089117 in good health, (the brain’s natural painkillers)* explore the ways in which it impacts the gamut of Medanta The Medicity, Gurugram (Gurgaon) please Screening, Diagnostics and Treatment. Our Seminar 95% of individuals feel good after Mondays & Wednesdays 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. contact us. volunteering* this year seeks to step beyond the comfort of “ dead Co-ordinator : Kamna Taneja Mob. +91- 9810152656 We need you habit” and encourage fresh thinking as well as new Indra Jasuja Mob. +91- 9958804370 Regular volunteers were 10 times ways of operation. more likely to be in good health Artemis Hospital, Gurugram (Gurgaon) than people who didn’t volunteer* Fridays 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. For Details Contact : For our present Session, we have a panel of experts Co-ordinator : Thrity Cawasji Mob. +91- 9810027913 INDIAN CANCER SOCIETY who are leaders in this field, who will strive to educate Kamal Srinivasan Mob. +91-9818486492 B 63-64, Basement, South Extension Part-II, without frightening. We urge you all, young and old, to come and partake of this enlightening experience . Fortis , Gurgaon New Delhi - 110049 said volunteering said volunteering Thursdays 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Tel : 011- 49424723 Last in this editorial, but First on our list , are our makes them feel makes them feel happier** healthier** Co-ordinator : Kiran Jaitley Mob. +91-9899273201 E-mail : [email protected] Devoted Volunteers. A huge Thank You for all you Madhu Narain Mob. +91-9810175010 Website : www.indiancancersocietydelhi.in have been doing. ICS would not be what it is without Venkateshwar Hospital, Dwarka each one of you. Wednesday 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Cancer Help Line : 9910516562 - Kamna Taneja said volunteering said volunteering Co-ordinator : J S Ahluwalia Mob. - +91- 9971093609 Editor : Kamna Taneja makes them feel makes them sleep Sudha Ahluwalia Mob. +91-9810093609 less stress** better** This issue of Nargis is sponsored by : Visit to the Trulife Office in Birmingham conducting a breast prosthesis fitting programme in various Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare application. It is a functioning reality in HR corporate policy. It hospitals in the UK’s NHS by trained nurses and fitters who is key to research & development in accessing mountains of on Thursday, 11 July 2018 have run it for the last 6-7 years. The NHS ( National Health The Future is Now! already available information data. It is the key to making Why does that Statement Raise Eyebrows? While I was in the UK this summer, a Service) provides each patient a new one every year, free of possible many innovations in the future. Can we afford to meeting was organized by Angela Bhandari cost and the old one is discarded. They collect these , wash and Healthcare is about ignore it? who has been sending us silicon prosthesis sanitizer them and are able to send them to us and other people caring for The Seminar this year seeks to bring together the brightest to ICS for a while now. In the UK, Breast countries for reuse. Trulife pays freight charges but Indian people. It has always minds, who understand the immense scope & range of Cancer patients are given a free prosthesis Cancer Society pays for the customs clearance. Beautiful brand been bringing utilization of AI in Healthcare. This is such a vast subject that every year. The used ones are in perfectly new bras are also being sent. They want to send swim wear and together Medical we have necessarily had to confine its scope to cancer & to ICS good condition and can be reused after other accessories also, but we need to get round the Customs / expertise with the area of experience- Screening, Diagnostics ( Radiology) and thorough cleaning and sanitising. The Excise department for a wavier of their fees. As of now, we have best of experts Treatment. We have much to learn and so much to actually project started in a small way by Angela been promised return of GST levied, but this has to be actually working in their own apply. received! & other scientific sending us a few periodically, and even bringing some over I am told- yes, we understand that diagnostic & Treatment areas, especially herself whenever she visited India. This project has today grown Many issues were discussed one on one which , hopefully , will have embraced AI. But why dream of its application to technology. Radiology has been at the forefront of using much bigger than expected. Consignments now come by enable us to extend this remarkable service to other NGOs in screening, especially at NGO level by ICS? I was asked the same technology.