Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer ( QSCBC Foundation ), Non-profit organization , Stadium 1, 799 Rama 1 Road, Wang Mai, Pathum Wan District, Bangkok 10330
Tel..02-214- 6044.
www.qscbcfoundation.org
Background :
Dr Kris Chatamra, Director of the Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer, has had over 30 years of experience in the field of breast cancer, as an internal examiner at the Royal College of Surgeons in England and as a senior clinician. He founded the Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer Foundation in 2007, a non-profit organization, to support the work of the Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer [QSCBC]. The QSCBC was built with donated funds and has become a centre of excellence with highly sophisticated equipment and using the most modern approaches to the diagnosis, treatment and research into a disease which has become the leading cancer risk for Thai women.
The QSCBC Foundation supports the work of the Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer and closely associated projects:
a) Pink Park Village is a major project supported by the QSCBC Foundation (QSCBCF),:
The QSCBC’s twenty years of experience of organizing a breast cancer screening project for the most under-privileged women in the slums of Bangkok, showed an urgent need to create a place for these patients who lack any support; a sanctuary where patients can recover from treatment away from the squalor of their homes or to pass away with dignity, pain free, in a clean environment. The QSCBC Foundation has built the first phase of a non-profit facility for the poorest patients called ‘Pink Park Village’ on 121 rai of donated land at Nongchok near Minburi, which will fulfill this desperate need in society.
‘Pink Park Village’ is a low rise facility in landscaped gardens, comprising of especially designed units. A convalescence centre, a hospice centre and a day care centre will provide the poorest patients with a home and the physical and psychological support that each individual requires during their recovery. An education centre, is planned which will organize seminars on palliative care, as well as, a specialized cancer rehabilitation centre.
The first intensive ‘palliative and end of life care’ nursing course in Thailand was organized at the QSCBC. ( 3 months course) in 2019.
Pink Park Village is a major project supported by the QSCBC Foundation (QSCBCF), it will encompass the following:
- Hospice Centre : Some patients will not have had access to breast cancer screening and treatment in time, due to lack of funds and fear of being diagnosed with a disease which they believe cannot be treated. These patients will be offered emotional support, in a clean environment away from the squalid conditions of the slums and pain free, to pass away with dignity.
- Convalescence Centre : Many of the patients from rural areas who have nowhere to stay during the weeks needed for the treatment of breast cancer at the QSCBC, live rough in unsuitable conditions often under road bridges. Other patients live in appalling conditions in the slums without any support. This centre will offer a home during treatment for these underprivileged patients. If patients are able to be kept in acute hospital beds during treatment, they also prevent new urgent patients being admitted; the convalescence centre will alleviate this problem.
- Day Care & Activity Centre : Patients at Pink Park will have occupational therapy as a support to their treatment. New life-skills and other activities will be offered to improve their lives once they have been discharged.
b) The QSCBC Breast (and cervical) Cancer Screening Project for the Slum Communities.
c) The QSCBC Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign to educate the public about the risks of breast cancer.
d) Research Projects of the QSCBC including immunotherapy for breast cancer patients and other clinical projects see Research at the QSCBC web site.