How a residential home provider is coming to aid of child cancer patients

The study has found that the environment plays a statistically significant role in outcomes of cancers like acute leukaemia which need intensive treatment

A group of children joyfully sing nursery rhymes in a bright yellow room. Among them is three-and-a-half-year-old Saajan Pandey, naughty, active and difficult to pin down.

“Seven months ago when he was diagnosed with leukaemia, he was too weak to walk,” says his father Abhishek Pandey, a rural schoolteacher from Bihar’s Nalanda district. Pandey and his wife brought Saajan to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, for treatment.

“The doctors at AIIMS said there was a good chance Saajan would recover,” he says. But it meant having to stay in Delhi for at least eight months during the course of