Rahul Yadav
Consultant, Volunteer, and Public Speaker in New Delhi, India
I am Rahul Yadav and I was living a perfect life. At the age of 28 in 2013, I had a well-paying job in HCL Technologies an IT MNC in Bangalore after completing my MBA from, Symbiosis Pune, a prestigious college and had just got married. I was at the beginning of a beautiful new life. But one casual visit to the doctor changed my life forever.
Doctors told me that I had Multiple Myeloma, a rare kind of blood cancer. Since then my life was never the same. Visit to the new office got converted into hospital visits and bed rest. “It was all so sudden; I didn’t even get a chance to realize what was happening. Suddenly I was on a wheelchair. It was like I was being led by others, they would tell me that now I have to take this treatment, now do this surgery, etc. and I would just do that. My life was being driven by external forces.
Initially I was depressed and in a shell. But I wasn’t one who would let this disease get the better of me. I am a fighter and will always remain one. I realized that it was so hard for me to deal with this because I didn’t have anyone to share the issues with.
With this idea in mind I thought of starting a patient-to-patient support group where all cancer patients come together and discuss about the issues they face and solutions to them.
So I started a group called Yoddhas, which means fighters in Hindi. The name I believe is a true representation of every cancer patient. He or she is a true fighter and just need a little support from all of us.
Today we are a UNESCO award winning Cancer Support NGO (Registered with 80G and 12A etc) and I am still under treatment.