Radiation Therapy Companion: Daily OPD Visits Across Weeks in Delhi

What the Radiation Schedule Actually Looks Like

Radiation oncology works in fractions — small daily doses rather than one long session:

• 5 days a week (Monday–Friday), typically for 4-6 weeks — 20-30 hospital visits per course.
• Short sessions — often 15-30 minutes inside the department, but arrival, changing, machine queue, and travel stretch each visit to 2-3 hours.
• Fixed daily slots — the department assigns a recurring time; missing a session can push the whole course.
• Weekly reviews — periodic oncologist check-ins and blood tests get added on top of the daily machine slots.

Why Daily Visits Need a Companion

Unlike chemotherapy (one long visit every 2-3 weeks), radiation therapy's challenge is repetition. The realistic problems families hit:

• No working family member can take 4-6 weeks of daily half-day leave.
• The patient often feels fine in week 1 — but fatigue builds, and by weeks 3-6 many patients should not travel alone.
• Daily cab coordination, gate queues, and department waiting is a logistics job in itself.
• For NRI families, a month-long daily hospital routine simply cannot be supervised in person.

A daily companion absorbs the repetition — and because they attend every session, they notice day-to-day changes a visiting family member would miss.

What the Daily Companion Does

• Coordinates daily transport — cab pickup, hospital entry, return trip.
• Manages the department queue and machine-slot timing each day.
• Waits through the session and escorts the patient back — especially important as fatigue builds.
• Tracks the weekly review appointments and any added blood tests on top of daily slots.
• Sends a short daily update to the family — session done, how the patient seemed, anything flagged.
• Alerts the family and the treating team if the patient reports worsening fatigue or other concerns — the companion observes and reports; clinical decisions stay with the radiation oncology team.

Same Companion Every Day — Why It Matters

For a 4-6 week daily course, companion consistency is not a luxury — it is the point. The same companion learns the patient's routine, the department's queue pattern, the fastest gate, and how the patient usually feels after a session. They notice when "the usual tired" becomes "more tired than usual" — and that observation reaches the family the same day.

Recurring packages assign the same verified companion for the full course.

Booking & Recurring Packages

Share the hospital, department, assigned daily slot, and the course duration. Radiation companion support is ₹349/hour, with recurring daily packages at discounted rates for multi-week courses. Payment is cash or UPI after each visit — no advance online payment required.

For combined oncology needs — chemo day-care sessions, biopsy collection, second opinions — see the specialty care companion guide.

Frequently Asked Questions