Top 5 Charity Organizations Providing Free Medical Care to People in need in Pakistan

“Of all the forms of inequality ; injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.”- Martin Luther King, Jr.  Top 5 Charity Organizations Providing Free Medical Care to People in need in Pakistan

Lack of access to basic healthcare for every individual is one of the most important issues, in a developing country like Pakistan. Lack of basic healthcare is affecting the quality of life in a variety of ways, resulting in a low and unhealthy workforce and sabotaging the economy of the country.

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When poor patients and their families reach out to hospitals for medical assistance they cannot afford to pay for costly healthcare services, because most of them are also facing other financial challenges of life. Most of them do not have two times meal to eat, cannot send their children to school, some are jobless or earning too less  to manage the expenses like house rents or bills.

We cannot wait to witness millions of premature deaths occurring before our eyes due to lack of healthcare. Such thoughts have propelled the charitable organizations to come forward with their expert workforce backed with technical logistics, to work for the vulnerable population of our country.

Charitable organizations are supporting free treatment for children living in poverty to cure them of malaria, pneumonia, diarrhea, congenital diseases and other birth defects.

Charitable organizations are supporting poor men, women and the elderly to pay for their diagnosis, surgeries and medicines so that they can get permanent relief from diabetes, tuberculosis, and chronic illness of the kidney, lungs, heart and gastronomical diseases.

Though human lives weigh more than materialistic elements, it requires money to stay healthy. 

With the help of these organizations, the poor population is now able to receive the continuous healthcare care needed to live a healthy life. 

List of Top 5 Charity Organizations Providing free Medical Care to People in Need in Pakistan:

1 – Transparent Hands

2 – Edhi Foundation

3 – Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital

4 – Al-Mustafa Welfare Society

5 – Insaniyat Foundation Pakistan

1- Transparent Hands :

Quick and Easy Way to Save Peoples’ Lives:

“Transparent Hands” is in first position, in our List of Top 5 Charity Organizations Providing Free Medical Care to People in Need 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.

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.

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2– Edhi Foundation:

About:

“Edhi Foundation” is in second position, in our List of Top 5 Charity Organizations Providing Free Medical Care to People in Need in Pakistan. Edhi Foundation is the single best foundation across Pakistan and one of the best social welfare service providers across the world running on non-commercial, non-political and non-communal basis, serving round-the-clock without any discrimination of color, class and creed is enjoying exclusive credentials in the shape of awards and shields conferred upon Mr. Abdul Sattar Edhi and Mrs. Bilquis Edhi by governmental and non-governmental organizations, on national and international level for rendering their exemplary services to humanity in multidimensional fields.

The diversified fields in which Abdul Sattar Edhi played his greatest role for; saving the lives of thousands of newborn babies by placing the cradles outside the Edhi centres, fostering the abandoned babies and children, free nurturing disabled and handicapped people, free caring and feeding women and elderly people who were subjected to torture or neglected by their families, free supporting to ailing patients by providing free medication and medicines through his mobile dispensaries, hospitals and the diabetic center at Karachi.

In addition to above, he offered his services in many other areas—like providing land, air and marine ambulance services during accidents to shift patients to hospitals, national and international relief and aid assistance to the affectees of natural debacles, providing relief aid to refugees in various countries, providing emergency services to the sufferers of drought, fire and flood, saving the lives of drowned people added with recovering dead bodies from the seas and floods, free rehabilitating the drug addicts, free tracing the missing people, free arranging marriages for the helpless girls and boys, providing free food, clothing and blankets to needy people.

Besides above, he also served the humanity by offering his services, by providing free technical education to needy people to make them self sufficient through the technical knowledge and skills, providing religious education to the children to make them the best human beings, providing consultancy on family planning and maternity services, providing free blood and plasma to the disadvantaged people, providing free shelter, food and caring to mentally retarded people, caring by giving shelter and food to orphan and helpless children.

Services to humanity rendered by Abdul Sattar Edhi and his spouse Mrs. Bilquis Edhi never end here, he played his role in some more areas—such as; provided free legal aid to bail out the prisoners, financial and medical support to the prisoners, provided crutches and supporters to the handicapped people and gave exclusive free bathing and shrouding services to unclaimed dead bodies, so on and so forth. All these services are so much outstanding and exceptional that Edhi Foundation’s role can truly be attributed to an unprecedented example of services to the nation and country of Pakistan as well as humanity, across the globe.

Services:

• Ambulance Service
• Hospitals
• Child Adoption Center & Childcare Services
• Edhi Homes & Orphanage Centres
• Educational Service

Ambulance Service:

Edhi Land Ambulance Service was initially started by including a second hand Hillman Pickup Truck, and that was refurbished into the first ambulance thereby coining “Poor Patient Ambulance”. Now sixty years after, the Edhi ambulance has reached to the stage of largest fleet of ambulances in the world, thereby providing with a tantalizing number of ambulances—such as 1800 vehicles, all over their country – Pakistan.

Child Adoption Center & Childcare Services:

The history of establishing the Edhi child adoption centre and childcare services dates back to 1949. Mrs. Bilquis Edhi is supervising and looking after the caring and feeding of babies and children. For this purpose, exclusive cradles have been placed outside all Edhi Centres, across the country with a view to keep the abandoned and illegitimate babies in these cradles.

Mostly these abandoned newborn babies are provided to the childless couples, who in accordance with their own policies, after ensuring that they are fully deserved and exactly suitable for this noble cause. Bilquis Edhi, after completely going through the background of the couples, and undertaking a rigorous screening process she decides that the couple or the family is precisely suitable for the baby adoption.

On annual basis, Edhi Foundation is giving over 250 babies or children for adoption. Till to date, over 23,320 babies and children have been provided to the childless couples and families.

3 – Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital:

“Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital” is in third position, in our List of Top 5 Charity Organizations Providing Free Medical Care to People in Need in Pakistan .

Mission:

“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.” 

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Leadership:

Their leadership brings together years of experience and expertise with the mission of fighting cancer ,and unprecedented commitment to patient care, education and research.

Clinical Services:

Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre offers a complete range of health care services.

Projects of SKMT:

The Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust realises its responsibilities in the fight against cancer, and therefore it has established a number of centres all over Pakistan that help in the awareness, diagnosis and treatment of cancer in Pakistan. Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre.

Hospitals:

• Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (Lahore, Pakistan), the first specialized cancer facility in the entire region with all the cancer diagnostic and therapeutic facilities under one roof, inaugurated on December 29, 1994.
• Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (Peshawar, Pakistan), built according to the latest international healthcare standards, inaugurated on December 29, 2015.
• Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (Karachi, Pakistan) Land Awarded, Planning in progress.

Outreach Cancer Screening Clinics:

• Shaukat Khanum Walk-In Clinic (Karachi, Pakistan)
• Shaukat Khanum Walk-In Clinic (Peshawar, Pakistan)
• Shaukat Khanum Walk-In Clinic (Lahore, Pakistan)
• Shaukat Khanum Walk-In Clinic (Multan, Pakistan)

Diagnostic Centres:

• Shaukat Khanum Diagnostic Centre (Lahore, Pakistan)
• Karachi Diagnostic Centre and Clinic (Karachi, Pakistan)

Their Services:

As one of the largest cancer care centres in Pakistan, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre offers a complete range of health care services including clinical, diagnostic, out-patient and others.

4- Al-Mustafa Welfare Society:

About:

“Al-Mustafa Welfare Society” is in fourth position, in our List of Top 5 Charity Organizations Providing Free Medical Care to People in Need in Pakistan . Al-Mustafa Welfare Society is one of the most reputable non-profit welfare organizations in Pakistan ,working for the social development and providing relief to low income group since 1983. It is run by a team of highly motivated intellectuals and social workers comprising of Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers, Business Executives and Representatives of various fields of life. Al-Mustafa’s branches are working all over the country from Kashmir to Karachi. They are providing Healthcare, Education, Public Awareness and Emergency Relief Services. Al-Mustafa is serving thousands of poor and needy people on daily basis through its Medical Centers, Clinics, Schools, Mosques, Madarsahas, Orphanage, Vocational Training Centers and Skill Development Centers all over the country.

Apart from Al-Mustafa’s routine services to mankind, Al-Mustafa is always among the main contributors whenever people are in need in case of any disaster like Earthquake 2005, Flood 2010, 2011 and 2012. With the support of their workers, volunteers and donors, Al-Mustafa Trust has always been there to rescue people from disaster, provided them tents, food, crockery, temporary schools, medical camps, medicines and anything else that could be needed. They have also provided shelter homes to the victims of various disasters.

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.

5- Insaniyat Foundation Pakistan:

About:

“Insaniyat Foundation Pakistan” is in fifth position, in our List Top 5 Charity Organizations Providing Free Medical Care to People in Need in Pakistan.  IFP is a Non-Governmental-Organization established to bring about change in our society.The foundation is aimed to motivate youth, help poor people, provide quality health, Blood Bank, awareness programs & free medical camps.

Vision:

A Non-political & Non-profit organization established to bring about change in our society. IFP is on the way forward in achieving the best results during disasters and peace time projects to include Health, Blood Bank, Awareness Programs, Free Medical Camps, Education & Capacity Building – this is the core agenda of Insaniyat Foundation Pakistan – IFP.

The idea was conceived in 2014 and the launching ceremony of the foundation took place on 27th November 2015 at Victoria Hospital Bahawalpur, which was attended by almost all the members of organization, media institutes and people from all walks of life.

 Mission:

• Serve Humanity for Good Cause

To improve the quality of living standard of the deprived, vulnerable and marginalized communities, women & children in particular areas by education, healthcare, environment, gender equality, community physical infrastructure, skill development, capacity building, public health & awareness Seminars on sustainable basis.

Objective:

• Providing quality Health
• Organizing Free Medical Camps
• Providing Medicines to needy People
• Blood Bank Service
• Free checkup at Affiliated Hospitals
• To prevent drug addiction in target area
• Free Blood (Different) tests at Camps
• Taking efforts for development of our Villages and Cities
• Organizing Medical Seminars for awareness
• To promote quality education both academic & technical in under privileged communities

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Conclusion:

Pakistan is still lagging behind to provide a solution to their healthcare issues. Every day the health problems are only increasing. Even though the urban cities of Pakistan have the best hospitals, which are equipped with the most modern facilities but treatment is not available to everyone due to poor financial and economic conditions.

According to the online journal Pakistan Today Profit, about 24.3% people are living in poverty in Pakistan. Poor and unhygienic living conditions are making them more vulnerable to diseases. In the past, health researchers have identified the link between poverty and bad health.

Charitable organizations are not only treating diseases but also providing long term disease management solutions to address persisting health issues in our country.

These organizations often launch various educational programs, to spread awareness against diseases and suggest people creative ways to deal with health problems.

We cannot deny the fact that a major part of our population does not enjoy a strong economic situation, and they cannot afford to access the latest equipment or reap health benefits from advanced medical care, only because they do not have money.

The public hospitals could be a great relief to the people of Pakistan as they charge low costs for their facilities, but these hospitals are avoided by the patients due to poor quality service and unreliability.

 The lack of government monitoring has granted healthcare officials, nurses and ward boys the liberty to misuse their positions, get involved in corrupted acts and take their duties lightly.

Therefore, the poor Pakistani population chooses to suffer in silence instead of accessing healthcare facilities that remain beyond their means. Some of them must save up money for years before being able to see a doctor or visit a hospital.

It is really unfair to not to give medicines or proper healthcare to people when they are deathly ill.

We need to keep ourselves in the shoes of those people who have lost their loved ones, just because they couldn’t arrange timely medical help for them or pay for their expensive hospital bills.

We have born as humans but to retain our humanity has now become a choice. This world will become a blissful place, when each one of us will decide to come forward and lend our human services to the unfortunate people.