List of Top 5 Humanitarian Organizations Providing Free Medical Care to People in Need in Pakistan

Humanitarian organizations are specialized institutions that provide emergency relief and aid at times of crucial disaster when physical, economic or environmental damage from an event or series of events destroy the community’s capacity to overcome from it permanently. List of Top 5 Humanitarian Organizations Providing Free Medical Care to People in Need in Pakistan 

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Though Humanitarian organizations are experienced in dealing with natural disasters, man-made disasters or complex emergencies, it simply doesn’t apply that they will be only working at the time of catastrophic events and remain inactive during other times.

There are many humanitarian organizations in Pakistan, that are working to eliminate the prevailing injustice and discrimination in our healthcare system so that every individual can get accessible medical care, medicine and surgeries without the need to worry about their financial state.

Unfortunately, our healthcare system in Pakistan is also going through deep crises where life-saving facilities are only available to the rich who can pay thousands of bucks for it, while the poor patients are denied to be given any service at all despite their deteriorating health condition. This is a huge upheaval upon humanity where human lives are treated to be lesser than commodities and whatsoever has no value.  

The ongoing discrimination in our healthcare system is threatening the health, safety, well being of poor and needy Pakistanis and many of these helpless patients have died in the past only because of our ignorance.

The Humanitarian Organizations, believe healthcare to be one of the basic human rights and are advocating for the protection and safety of the vulnerable populations that are torn by disease, yet cannot get medical care on time just because they lack the financial strength to do so.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a man’s personality. In order to be tough, we don’t need to be heartless or cruel. We should understand that human compassion and kindness are not just mere emotions, but are essential to understand the pain and agony of unfortunate ones. This compassion can give us the moral strength to stand up for the right cause and work hard to improve the lives of others.

Equity in healthcare, may seem to be a distant dream to achieve but it is still possible if the civilians come forward to assist and volunteer for the humanitarian organizations, to help them implement their long term projects and sustainable goals.

Getting basic healthcare is essential to sustain human life so it should be given for free. It is time that we learn to become humane, value human lives and begin to live like true human beings.

Here we have listed Top 5 Humanitarian Organizations Providing Free Medical Care to People in Need in Pakistan :

List of Top 5 Humanitarian Organizations Providing Free Medical Care to People in Need in Pakistan

1. Transparent Hands

2. Edhi Foundation

3. Shahid Afridi Foundation

4. Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital

5. Fauji Foundation

1. Transparent Hands :

Free Healthcare Services for those Who Cannot Afford :

“Transparent Hands” is the largest technology platform for crowdfunding in the healthcare sector of Pakistan. It offers a complete range of free healthcare services including medical and surgical treatments, medical camps and tele-health facility, to the underprivileged community of Pakistan.
The platform provides visibility of needy patients and builds a personal and trusted bond between patients and donors while ensuring complete transparency. It also sets up free medical camps in the rural areas of Pakistan in which, free medical consultation, free medicines and free diagnostic tests facility is provided to the deserving patients.

Committed to Provide Free Healthcare Services to People in Need Across Pakistan :

Transparent Hands provides free medical and surgical treatment facility to the deserving patients across Pakistan in private hospitals. It also sets up free medical camps in rural areas of the country. Transparent Hands is also providing healthcare at doorstep through its advanced tele-health service.

Donors from all over the world can use our online Crowdfunding web portal and donate through 100% secure payment modes. They could select any patient, fund the treatment and receive regular feedback and updates until the patient is recovered completely.

Our User Friendly Online Fundraising Platform Works as Follows :

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

Fund the Surgeries & Medical Treatments of Deserving Patients by Giving Donation/Charity :

We are blessed with good health and wealth and it’s our duty to further utilize them for the service of mankind. Even a small amount can create a lasting impact in someone’s miserable life. Spend your wealth on a noble cause and transform the lives of deserving people of Pakistan. The amount which you’ll contribute, towards the surgeries and medical treatments of thousands of people will bring them back to better health and improve their living.

With the help of Crowdfunding by kind donors like you, many people under Transparent Hands were given medical relief for free. But there are still thousands of people who are in dire need of your support and are waiting for a miracle which could save their lives. Together, we can transform many lives for which we need your continued support. Let’s unite and make effort in making Pakistan an ideal place to live, where everyone has access to basic healthcare facility regardless of his financial capability.

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 2. Edhi Foundation :

“Edhi Foundation” is the social welfare service provider 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 support to ailing patients by providing free medication and medicines through 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  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

3. Shahid Afridi Foundation :

“Shahid Afridi Foundation”, founded in March 2014 by the famous cricketer Shahid Afridi also known as “Boom Boom” worldwide, was a step towards a better Pakistan. The organization was established in view of improving living conditions of poor and destitute members of the society.

The first project by the foundation, a hospital in Tangi Banda Village of Kohat called “Sahibzada Fazal Rehman Memorial and Charity Hospital” was developed successfully. The foundation has also worked on the water shortage issues in villages of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by fixing simple hand pumps. SAF gave scholarships to 12 deserving students of Farabi Government School in year 2014. To continue the tradition it shortlists candidates for scholarship. SAF also displayed support with Dar-ul-Sukun (Karachi) by undertaking the special children ward financially on 16th October 2015.

Shahid Afridi Foundation (SAF) is committed to changing the lives of people, however whatever we do would be incomplete without your love and support. The foundation works like a family, a family dedicated to providing better healthcare, education and clean drinking water to every member of society and become a ray of hope for children, youngsters and adults alike.

Vision & Mission :

We aspire to transform lives with an ocean of love, happiness and prosperity for the underprivileged people in Pakistan and across the globe.

Hope not out!

To spread education and health services across every corner of Pakistan and work on world peace via sports diplomacy and humanitarian aid enabling ethical, moral and intellectual enlightenment.

Services in Health Sector :

-> Sahibzada Fazal Rehman Charity Hospital :

The hospital is equipped with all major machineries and facilities, completed with 16 beds,4 full-time doctors along with other part-time specialists, the hospital is providing free primary healthcare facilities to the poor and ailing community since hospital started its operations in March 2014.

According to a SAF Lady Doctor “With the help of organizations such as Shahid Afridi Foundation; quick, easy and affordable access to basic healthcare has been made possible, helping women practice mother and child care, pre and post-pregnancy, plus dealing with ailments of the elderly.”

-> Thar Hospital :

SAF has collaborated with Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company and Indus Hospital to build a 250 Bed State-of-the-Art Hospital in Islamkot area of Thar region of Sindh. SAF is focusing on the health of mother & child, the construction cost of mother & child block will be born by SAF and it will be named as Shahid Afridi Foundation Mother & Child Block.

Access to proper, affordable healthcare has been a serious concern within Tharparker, with major issues regarding childbirth, plaguing the people on a yearly basis, resulting in high infant and maternal mortality rates. This brought our attention to the need for awareness along with a viable healthcare outlet for the benefit of these people, the Foundation in collaboration with Thar Foundation was able to improve the existing situation by establishing a hospital in that region.

4. Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital :

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 realizes 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. 

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.

5. Fauji Foundation :

“Fauji Foundation” (also known as Fauji Group), is amongst the largest business conglomerate in Pakistan which “Earns To Serve” the interests of ex-servicemen.

It is basically a Charitable Trust founded in 1954 for the welfare of the ex-servicemen and their dependents. It is incorporated under the Charitable Endowments Act 1890.

Fauji foundation is proud that from Rs 18.2 million in 1953, it today runs more than 18 industries, the income from which is utilized to serve about 9 million beneficiaries (5 % of country’s population). Generally, more than 80 percent of the income goes towards the welfare activities every year.

The welfare is conducted through health care, education and vocational/technical training. To a limited extent welfare is also a by- product of employment generated for the beneficiaries through commercial and welfare activities. Presently, the welfare is conducted through 115 medical facilities, 100 Schools & Colleges, 65 Vocational Training Centers and 9 Technical Training Centers.

AIM :

“To provide and generate funds for welfare measures and benefits of ex-servicemen and their families”.

Vision :

As a role model welfare-cum-industrial organisation, maintain sustained operational excellence in health care, education and industry.

Mission :

Provide and facilitate quality education and health care.

Objectives :

• Provide and facilitate quality education, including technical and vocational training.
• Provide and arrange health care, including artificial limbs.
• Improve financial strength and profitability through strong investments.
• Set benchmarks comparable to international standards.
• Achieve operational excellence in all its ventures.
• Increase efficiency and productivity through good management practices.
• Be an environmentally conscious organisation.

 HEALTH CARE SERVICES :

The Fauji Foundation Health Care System began with the establishment of a 50 bed TB hospital in 1959 at Rawalpindi. Today, the Fauji Foundation Health Care System is the largest medical chain outside the Government sector, spread all over Pakistan. In order to provide best medical treatment and care to the beneficiaries all the FF Medical Projects are equipped with most sophisticated and modern equipment to achieve best diagnostic facilities.

HEALTH CARE PROJECTS :

• Hospitals
• Other Health Care Units
• Artificial Limb Centre

Fauji Foundation has 126 medical facilities, with over 735 Doctors, 64 Adm Officers, 1,544 Para-Medical and 2,618 Adm Staff.

Salients of the Foundation’s Health Care System are:-

Mobile Health Clinics operate around selected Fauji Foundation medical projects; within a round-trip distance of 175 km in the plains, and 120-150 km in the mountains. Since inception, over 27.5 million patients have been provided treatment through these health care units.

Free specialized treatment is extended to patients, outsourced, where necessary.

Since the commencement of health care operations, 1.50 million indoor and 64.31 million outdoor patients have been treated. Overall 89.95 million patients have been treated and Rs. 56.539 billion have been spent on health care programmes.

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Humanitarian organizations are driven by strong moral and ethical values and take humanitarian actions in grim situations based on humanity. These organizations generally work for the homeless, refugees, victims of natural disasters, wars and famines.

Humanitarian agencies in Pakistan are also working in our healthcare system to encounter the inhumane acts against poor patients. These organizations are duty bound to provide free healthcare and medicines to poor patients and also fund their life-saving surgeries. 

Humanitarian organizations are obliged to govern humanitarian action and assert the healthcare right of poor populations to ensure that they can live a dignified, mobile and healthy life without physical discomfort and mental stress.

We need to understand that healthcare isn’t a commercial industry that could be used by business-minded people to derive financial profits for themselves. Healthcare is a sensitive issue and is directly linked with the survival and well being of humans. Thus it is also our responsibility to draw the attention of the government to prevent such filthy minded people from operating in this sector and take legal actions to stop their inhumane and heinous acts.

The day when health professionals would start giving more priority to human lives than money and every patient would be receiving quality care without discrimination; our nation would see the greatest spiritual explosion of humanity.

The world belongs to all of us and in order to bring a change, we are the ones who should step forward and extend our hands to those in crisis. At this crucial point, humanity needs love, care, compassion and kindness to survive.

Let us give every individual their rights to get good healthcare and live a dignified life. Let us stand for humanity and fight for human rights.