Ganga Prem Hospice, Rishikesh

Ganga Prem Hospice, Rishikesh See our work at www.gangapremhospice.org

Ganga Prem Hospice has been established with the vision of providing professional palliative care, spiritual solace and emotional understanding to terminally-ill cancer patients. A short film on Ganga Prem Hospice work at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsL2GViuq-c
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwKqjEyKwaM

India's 77th Republic Day celebrations at Ganga Prem Hospice today!
26/01/2026

India's 77th Republic Day celebrations at Ganga Prem Hospice today!




The yellow fervour of Basant Panchmi was evident today at Ganga Prem Hospice. The day started with Saraswati Puja in whi...
23/01/2026

The yellow fervour of Basant Panchmi was evident today at Ganga Prem Hospice. The day started with Saraswati Puja in which patients, their caregivers and GPH staff participated and prasad was distributed. The harmonium was played by some and everybody sat around, taking the opportunity to mingle with each other on what was a rainy day.
The GPH staffers were seen today not in their professional uniforms but in vibrant yellows! 💛✨✨💛

Sometimes, just sitting in the sunshine with somebody by your side is enough. 🤲🤍❤️
18/01/2026

Sometimes, just sitting in the sunshine with somebody by your side is enough. 🤲🤍❤️


A small but important part of daily palliative care: grooming. It keeps up the hygiene levels and makes the patients fee...
18/01/2026

A small but important part of daily palliative care: grooming.
It keeps up the hygiene levels and makes the patients feel clean and well cared for. ✨🌸


Tonight we celebrate the festival of Lohri.The Ganga Prem Hospice staff are busy preparing the traditional bonfire for e...
13/01/2026

Tonight we celebrate the festival of Lohri.
The Ganga Prem Hospice staff are busy preparing the traditional bonfire for everybody to sit around and enjoy!

A year of palliative care service is coming to an end. We wish everybody a very happy, safe and healthy new year 2026!
31/12/2025

A year of palliative care service is coming to an end.
We wish everybody a very happy, safe and healthy new year 2026!

20/12/2025

A visiting Ganga Prem Hospice volunteer Babita Tamsoy saw the multi-dimensional work of our team up-close and decided to cover it through her camera lens. We are happy to share the fruits of her work!

We received a beautiful floral design card from our friend Fiona in Scotland who is doing a yoga class fundraiser for Ga...
18/12/2025

We received a beautiful floral design card from our friend Fiona in Scotland who is doing a yoga class fundraiser for Ganga Prem Hospice in Glasgow on December 20.

We wish the fundraiser great success and thank everybody for giving their time and generosity to GPH 🪷🙏🏻

A very foggy December morning in Rishikesh, but the Ganga Prem Hospice teams are all ready to carry out their task of ca...
17/12/2025

A very foggy December morning in Rishikesh, but the Ganga Prem Hospice teams are all ready to carry out their task of caregiving, whether at the hospice or at patients' homes.





Christmas tree sparkles at Ganga Prem Hospice! 🌟🎄🎄🌟
13/12/2025

Christmas tree sparkles at Ganga Prem Hospice! 🌟🎄🎄🌟

What are the options that migrant and financially weak people have, who suddenly find that they may a cancer diagnosis. ...
07/12/2025

What are the options that migrant and financially weak people have, who suddenly find that they may a cancer diagnosis. Away from their home town or village, with no significant social support structure in an alien town, how difficult is it for such people to take care of their finances, not miss work days while also doing hospital runs, undergo treatment, endure the symptoms of a disease that requires concerted and expensive treatment, and also maintain their emotional and psychological health.

These were some thoughts that came to our minds when a 41-year-old patient with possible oropharynx cancer came to the Ganga Prem Hospice OPD on a Sunday. He and his wife had been making the rounds of the oncology department of a busy, government-run hospital in Rishikesh, a biopsy had been done and their next hospital visit date was three weeks later. Afraid of how they would live with the patient’s weakening condition for another three weeks, they came to Ganga Prem Hospice to find succor, having been guided by their landlord to the service. They wanted admission at the hospice, while what they needed was swift and comprehensive oncological assessment and treatment.

The GPH team administered the patient medication for pain relief, counselled them about how to go about obtaining an EWS card, consulted the hospice’s senior doctors for his condition, gave the patient liquid food diet for some sustenance and put out an easy chair out in the sun for him to rest. His upset and worried wife was served breakfast by the kitchen team. She insisted she was not hungry, but the team understood she was in need of physical strength and good nourishment to carry the heavy burden of caregiving.

From the GPH nurse and the pharmacist, to the administrator and kitchen staff, over six GPH employees were at hand to give care to the patient. With the increasing cancer burden and patient load in the country, is India in a position to provide care to each and every citizen suffering from cancer and arrest the disease with treatment, while it is still in curative stages? How many patients go on to become untreatable just because there wasn’t a slot for them in the long line for a diagnostic test, surgery or therapy. When one sees the human cost of this burden, one can only feel anguish. Still, we must continue making the little difference that we can - one life at a time.



Nature has a way of invigorating the bodies and minds that come into its fold. This is exactly what happened to the Gang...
02/12/2025

Nature has a way of invigorating the bodies and minds that come into its fold. This is exactly what happened to the Ganga Prem Hospice residents, their caregivers and staff members, some of who went out on a sunny morning today to a jungle retreat of a supporter and friend of Ganga Prem Hospice, not far from the facility.
Sitting amidst nature, next to gurgling, gushing water and with flowers blooming all around, one felt relaxed immediately.
The GPH team had games planned that everybody could participate in. All present also opened up about the most special time and occasion of their life. A patient spoke about the time he got into medical school, another about her children, yet another patient wrote a message that the most memorable moment of his life was the day his daughter was born fifteen years ago, and now she was appearing for her Xth standard board exams!
There were stories of how wildlife could be spotted there sometimes: a leopard, deer, peacocks.
Pictures were clicked galore and the picnic was a wonderful way for patients and their family members to bond with their palliative care caregivers in a non-medical setting.

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Ganga Prem Hospice, Village Gohri Maphi, Raiwala
Rishikesh
249205

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+919810931743

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