List of Top 3 Trust organizations organizing Medical Camps in Pakistan

Generally people from the lower and lower middle class face the most tremendous emotional blow whenever a medical emergency occurs in the family. This causes severe financial stress which is further burdened by expensive hospitalization bills and medicine costs especially in the case of cancer, heart ailments, cochlear implants, kidney disorders and other such life-threatening illnesses. List of Top 3 Trust organizations organizing Medical Camps in Pakistan

Medical Trusts provide financial help to meet the cost of medical treatments for the poor and needy patients. Additionally, criteria-based assistance is provided to socially and economically challenged patients, by referring them to selected hospitals for treatment. Medical trusts sponsors the treatment of the patients at reputable hospitals by raising funds. Medical trusts also fund research related to  treatments of disease, disability and frailty relating to ageing.Many trusts have well funded the research into HIV/AIDS, cancers or heart diseases to introduce innovative treating methods and effective medicines in the medical field for its advancements.

Despite all these sincere efforts, not many people know about trust organizations. So every patient in dire need of treatment is missing a life-saving opportunity that could have helped them to get back to their feet again. Medical trusts have taken the initiative to organize medical camps and reach out to more people in rural and urban areas who would highly benefit from their humanitarian services.

Medical camps have reached almost every village across the country, and are a powerful tool to screen patients who may be unable or unwilling to seek care from private or public hospitals. Medical camps usually offer free Blood Pressure Check Up, Blood Sugar Checkups, Eye Checkups, Dental checks, and BMI checkups, etc to their visitors. Some medical camps held indoors may offer free laboratory tests and radiology investigations like X-ray, CT, ultrasound etc. Specialized doctors, nurses, volunteers, and security staff join the medical camps to provide the best healthcare services in a secure environment. Medical Trusts are known to sponsor further treatments or surgeries free of cost for deserving patients at reputable hospitals.

These organizations bear all medical expenses, including the cost of medicines, hospital bills, surgeries, etc on behalf of needy patients so that they can return back home in good health. Thousands of patients have benefitted from the medical camps as they were relieved from prolonged sickness and pain.

Top 3 Trust organizations organizing Medical Camps in Pakistan

1- Transparent Hands

Quick and Easy Way to Save Peoples’ Lives

Transparent Hands is in first position in our List of Top 3 Trust organizations organizing Medical Camps in Pakistan. Transparent Hands funds surgeries of poor patients using a global Crowdfunding platform. The platform provides visibility of poor patients and builds a personal and trusted bond between patients and donors while ensuring complete transparency.

Where Is the Problem?

More than 70 million people in Pakistan are living below the poverty line due to which they are unable to undergo proper health treatment if they experience any disease. Estimated amount of surgery backlog in Pakistan is in millions every year.

• There are not many health insurance plans for underprivileged community. They have to pay out of pocket if they need any medical treatment but due to the limited or no resources, majority is unable to undergo surgical treatment.
• Beyond the cost of the surgical procedure, they might have to pay for pre and post-operative expenses which includes medical tests, medications, hospital stay and other expenses. It is almost impossible for someone who earns less than $2 a day to pay hefty amount for medical relief.
• There is lack of advanced medical facilities and medical professionals due to which lower middle class families are unable to avail treatment facilities.
• There are a limited number of beds in hospitals but the number of patients visiting these hospitals is a lot more.
• Every second patient including a child is put on a long waiting list and during the waiting period, the patient’s health further deteriorates. In most of the cases, patients expire until their turn comes.
• There is no advanced healthcare services in slums due to which majority of people have to rely on quacks in their areas.
• Private hospitals are out of reach for deprived community due to the high costs of consultation fees and surgical procedure.

Our Role

•     Committed to Provide Free Surgeries to Those Who Cannot Afford

Transparent Hands is a non-profit organization which is tackling this major healthcare issue of Pakistan with the help of fundraising through its unique Crowdfunding platform. It is registered under Trust Act 1882 as a Trust Organization with a Tax Exemption status under the article 2(36) in Pakistan. Transparent Hands is  registered in USA EIN assigned: 47-3564801 as Transparent Hands Foundation US, Inc. with tax exemption status 501(c)3.

Transparent Hands conducts the surgeries of deserving patients free of cost at private hospitals with the help of donations and charity. Donors from all over the world can use our online Crowdfunding web portal if they wish to donate. They could select any patient, fund the surgery and receive regular feedback and updates until the patient is recovered completely.

Download our TransparentHands Andriod Application for Online Donation

Our user friendly online fundraising work as follows:

• Choose the patient whose surgery you want to fund. 
• Choose from a number of payment methods as per your convenience.
• Donate to that particular patient and get tax exemption.
• Get regular updates of that patient until he/she gets fully recovered.

What makes us unique is; our transparency level that means donors will be ensured that each penny they are giving will be spent on the needy patient. We do this by uploading all the hospital bills and other documents of our patient after his/her surgery is successfully conducted. Donor can see that the exact amount hospital has charged against the surgery of that particular patient.

2 – Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital:

Mission

Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital is in second position in our List of Top 3 Trust organizations organizing Medical Camps in Pakistan. “To act as a model institution to alleviate the suffering of patients with cancer through the application of modern methods of curative and palliative therapy irrespective of their ability to pay, the education of health care professionals and the public and perform research into the causes and treatment of cancer.” Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre.

Donate any amount of your choice or be an official online fundraiser of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre by following these simple guide lines:

Step-1: Sign up

Step-2: Create your fundraising page

Step-3: Donate and pass it on to your friends If we all do a little, we can do a lot!.

List of Top 10 NGOs Organizing Medical Camps in Pakistan

3- Al-Mustafa Welfare Society

Free Medical Camps

Al-Mustafa Welfare Society regularly organizes Free Medical Camps all over Pakistan in areas where people can’t even afford their routine check-up. Free Medicines are also provided to the patients in Free Medical Camps. There are different types of Free Medical Camps as follows.

General Free Medical Camp

In General Free Medical Camp, General Physician does check-up of patients and they are provided with the prescribed medicines. Some investigations as also done such as sugar, cholesterol, blood pressure and BMI etc.

Emergency Medical Camp

Emergency Medical Camps are organized whenever any disaster occurs anywhere like Earthquake 2005, Flood 2010, 2011 ,2012.

Free Eye Surgeries Camp

In Free Eye Camps, Eye Specialist does check-up of patients and they are provided prescribed medicines. In these camps, many Cataract cases are found and Cataract Surgeries are performed free of cost of all the cases found in the camp.

Free Cleft Lip Palate Camp

In Cleft Lip & Palate Camp, Plastic Surgeons does check-up of the patients who have problem of Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate and their surgeries are performed free of cost.

Conclusion

Medical camp is a good way to spread awareness about the Trusts’ scheme, incentives and other charitable facilities. Medical camp is a sustainable method known to increase the health care utilization by the poor population. Through these camps the trusts can introduce them to their targeted patients and at the same time they can light a strong ray of hope for the most unprivileged people and remind them that they aren’t forgotten, uncared or unloved by the society.