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.

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 the trust organizations. So every patient in dire need of treatment is missing a life saving opportunity which 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 the 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 Checkup, Eye Checkup, Dental check upand BMI Checkup etc to its 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 staffs 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 the deserving patients at reputable hospitals.

 

These organizations bear all medical expenses, including the cost of medicines, hospital bills, surgeries etc on behalf of the 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.

List of Top 3 Trust organizations organizing Medical Camps in Pakistan

1- Transparent Hands

2 – Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital

3 – Al-Mustafa Welfare Society

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:

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Many young innocent lives are being saved at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre. Last year, your Zakat made it possible to treat almost 75% of their patients for free. This year they need 5.5 billion rupees to help those who cannot afford to pay for their own treatment. While the revenue from the Hospital’s diagnostic services has always, and continues to be, utilised for their expansion projects, it is your Zakat that is the hope of life for their poor cancer patients. Donate generously to SKMCH&RC this Ramadan and help us keep this hope alive. Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre

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. Find a clinical service below by searching their Departments.

1-  Anaesthesiology

Anesthesia Department at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre provides anesthesia to a wide variety of surgical patients inside the four operating rooms.

Facilities & Services

Anesthesia is also provided in MRI suit, where a state of the art MRI compatible anesthesia machine and monitoring is used for safe conduct of the diagnostic test. Sedation and anesthesia is provided in Endoscopy unit for either Gastro-esophageal or pulmonary interventions. Sedation and anesthesia is also provided for vascular coiling and for neuro-interventional radiology. Other areas for activity are sedation for Radiation simulations in children in the dept. of Radiation Oncology. Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre.

Their practice is as wide based as are the demands for anesthesia requirements in different specialties and varied locations through out the hospital. The dept. is well equipped with the latest tools to safely conduct anesthesia and sedation. Operating rooms are equipped with most modern anesthesia machines with availabity of  invasive monitoring, they are in the process to updating  all the older equipment in the operating rooms and the PACU ( post anesthesia care unit) to  the most modern equipment available.

Wide variety of interventional pain procedures including Radiofrequency Nerve and Joint Ablations as well as permanent neurolysis for cancer pain are routinely performed. Interventional Pain Service with dedicated pain nurse provides a wide variety of solutions to patients in sever pain.

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

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

Outreach Cancer Screening Clinics

1. Shaukat Khanum Walk-In Clinic (Karachi, Pakistan) 
2. Shaukat Khanum Walk-In Clinic (Peshawar, Pakistan)
3. Shaukat Khanum Walk-In Clinic (Lahore, Pakistan)
4. Shaukat Khanum Walk-In Clinic (Multan, Pakistan)

Diagnostic Centres

1. Shaukat Khanum Diagnostic Centre (Lahore, Pakistan)
2. 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.

3- Al-Mustafa Welfare Society

About

Al-Mustafa Welfare Society is in third position in our List of Top 3 Trust organizations organizing Medical Camps 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 Health, 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, Madarsahs, 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.

Honorary Mention

5- Insaniyat Foundation Pakistan

About

Insaniyat Foundation Pakistan is in fifth position in our List of Top 3 Trust organizations organizing Medical Camps 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

Conclusion:

Medical trusts are playing a crucial role in our society and to understand their worth we need to take a short look at these healthcare statistics. According to the report, Short Roundup of Health Infrastructure in Pakistan published by Gall up Pakistan, in 2015 there were only 1167 hospitals, 5695 dispensaries, 5464BHUs sub health centers, 733maternity and child health centers, 339TB centers, 118869 total beds and 1613population per bed available across the country. In 2015, the number of registered doctors in Pakistan was 184711; dentist 16652, nurses 94766, midwives 34668 and lady health workers was 16488 to treat about 190 million people at that time.

Over the last 18 years the number of hospitals founded in Pakistan is exponentially low in comparison to the growth of the country’s population so the scarcity of proper medical and healthcare services can be understood easily.

Trust organizations assist the patients who have found themselves in distressing circumstances due to ill health. These organizations are not willingly to let people die just because they cannot afford their own survivals. Thus, Medical trusts are providing financial help to the people in sickness, infirmity or disability or in other medical conditions. In this way the trusts are trying to fill the existing void in our healthcare system.

Free medical camps are of great importance to the poor people who live on a meager income. These people never dare to visit the hospitals or clinics even when they are sick because their meager income is insufficient to bear the expenses of a good health checkup or buy the medicines prescribed by the doctor. 

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.