My Nonprofit Reviews

Koshish, - The Hospice, www.kosishngo.org is one of a kind retreat and palliative care center located near Bokaro in Jharkhand, India. It's run a by a dedicated and a very passionate set of doctors and volunteers from Bokaro as well as Kolkota.

The founder and medical director of Koshish Dr. Dam has extensive international experience and deep expertise in palliative care. Dr. Dam is has closely observed patients die a lonely, painful and undignified deaths in ICUs, and hospitals without proper palliative care centers. He has made his mission to provide the terminally ill with a good quality of life with symptom control. He has also focussed on spiritual and psychological issues in end-of-life care and has conducted some commendable work integrating religion, spirituality and quality of life. Dr. Dam has published multiple books on this subject and has given multiple international seminars and presentations.

Dr. Dam and his team provide rare and uncommon service to our nations aged and ill citizens. Hospices are common in developed world but such a facility in India is rare and that too where the services are given free of charge for poor people is extraordinary. Wish you all the best Dr. Dam and please keep up the good work. Dr. Palani, Washington D.C.