Top 5 Welfare Organizations Providing Free Medical Care to People in Need in Pakistan from UK

“Nothing on Earth can give you more pleasure than spending a part of your life for the welfare of others.”  Top 5 Welfare Organizations Providing Free Medical Care to People in Need in Pakistan from UK

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Welfare organizations are working to address problems in our healthcare system, to ensure that every individual gets access to free medical care. These organizations are mainly private ,but they work without the motive of gaining any personal benefit and highly dependent on funding from donors and grants.

We are fortunate enough that we have the money to pay for the physician’s fees, hospital bills and other charges when we are sick. Not every individual is as fortunate as us. These are the vulnerable people who need our financial aid, to continue their treatment and get permanent relief.

We cannot  expect the government to resolve every social issue because they too have other preferences. Usually, the governments are much more dissolved in dealing with political, economic, international and other administrative issues, which causes hindrance in the path of providing service to humanity.

We even cannot sit idle and watch people suffer in sickness and ill health. Welfare organizations help the most troubled families to pay for their medical expenses, and enable them to look after the well-being of their family while coping with their daily life problems.

In order to keep their charitable projects running and helping people to pay for their medical treatments, they need a constant stream of funds coming from both local and international donors.

However, these organizations face difficulty for constant funding. Access to the appropriate donors becomes a major issue and challenge for them.

Donating to the welfare organizations is no less than a noble servitude, as our donations will be spent on the treatment of poor patients. Our donations will save millions of lives and give them permanent relief from diseases.

To help you out we have listed top 5 welfare organizations in the UK, that are providing free medical care to people in need:

List of Top 5 Welfare Organizations Providing Free Medical

Care to People in Need in Pakistan from UK :

1-Transparent Hands

2-Al-Khair Foundation (AKF)

3-International Medical Corps

4-British Heart Foundation

5-National Health Service 

1- Transparent Hands:

Quick and Easy Way to Save People’s Lives:

“Transparent Hands” is in first position in our list. 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-Al-Khair Foundation (AKF):

“Al-Khair Foundation” is in second position in our list. Al-Khair Foundation (AKF) is always on standby to support victims during emergencies and disasters.

From internal conflicts to natural disasters, Al-Khair Foundation prides itself in being one of the first on the ground to respond. In the event of an emergency, they dispatch their relief teams to assess the situation, provide vital support and deliver necessary aid. Once on the ground, they work to deliver the essentials (clean water, food, shelter and medication) to survivors and affected people.They responded to natural disasters and crises in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Palestine, Nepal and the United Kingdom, as well as providing considerable support for refugees fleeing conflict in Syria, Burma and Yemen. AKF also has on-going relief projects in parts of the world ,where war and regular disasters have left the population without social stability and security.Your generous donations will help us to reach more survivors during an emergency. Your donations allow us to feed and hydrate more disaster-affected communities and keep them warm during the winter months.

Al-Khair Foundation is a UK-based international NGO providing humanitarian support, international development, emergency aid and disaster relief in some of the world’s most deprived areas. Established in 2003 and rapidly growing into one of the leading Muslim charities in the UK, Al-Khair Foundation also looks to tackle issues prevalent in the UK as well, such as unemployment, education, women’s empowerment and domestic violence.

How They Started:

Al-Khair Foundation (AKF) began with a school. In the Islamic tradition, which advocates that charity starts at home, they wanted to give back to their UK community first, and education was the best thing they knew to give.

How They Grew:

Today, Al-Khair Foundation (AKF) is a UK-based Muslim charity, and although they’ve been engaged in charitable work from the outset, education was initially their key priority. After their UK schools proved to be a success, AKF started building schools overseas. Their focus was educating orphans and children from underprivileged communities. This led to their work with widows and vulnerable women, and then to the establishment of the AKF shelters. Eventually they launched their water aid and livelihood projects, as well as the Al-Khair Foundation medical aid programmes ,2005 became a turning point for us when AKF rose to the challenge of providing emergency aid during the Kashmir Earthquake of that year. This was their first venture into the area of Overseas Disaster Relief. That October, and in the winter months which followed, AKF distributed food, shelter kits and medicine to survivors of the quake. Since then, AKF has undertaken emergency aid missions all over the world. Their support of the Haiti earthquake survivors was recognized by the United Nations in 2010. While during the Japan earthquake of 2011, they were the only UK Muslim charity working with survivors on the ground.

3-International Medical Corps:

About International Medical Corps:

“International Medical Corps” is in third position in our list.International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization.

Their Mission:

Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities, that build local capacity in under served communities worldwide.

By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance. International Medical Corps Worldwide is a global humanitarian alliance that comprises the resources and capabilities of two independent affiliate organizations, International Medical Corps and International Medical Corps UK. Together, our mission is to save lives and relieve suffering through the provision of health care and training. With headquarters in the United States and the United Kingdom respectively, we collaborate to maximize resources for the delivery of appropriate relief and development activities.

4-British Heart Foundation:

“The British Heart Foundation” is in fourth position in our list. It was founded in 1961 by a group of medical professionals, who were concerned about the increasing death rate from cardiovascular disease. They wanted to fund extra research into the causes, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of heart and circulatory diseases.

It is a major funder and authority in cardiovascular research, education and care, and relies predominantly on voluntary donations to meet its aims. In order to increase income and maximize the impact of its work, it also works with other organizations to combat premature death and disability from cardiovascular disease.

Activities:

The British Heart Foundation’s main focus is to fund cardiovascular research, aiming to spend around £100 million a year funding scientists around the UK. They are currently funding over 1000 research projects.

Since 2008 the British Heart Foundation has been investing in Centres of Research Excellence. The six current centres bring together scientists from a number of disciplines to work on research projects to beat heart and circulatory disease.The current Centres of Research are:

• Imperial College London
• King’s College London
• University of Cambridge
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Glasgow
• University of Oxford

In 2013 the BHF committed to funding three multi-institution Centres of Regenerative Medicine, investing £7.5 million over four years to fund scientists looking for new treatments for heart failure.

Other Activities Include:

Information – BHF will provide information to help people reduce their own heart health risk.

Campaigning – BHF will get government to establish policies that minimize the risk of developing heart and circulatory disease

Support – offering advice to those with heart conditions via their website, information booklets or heart helpline.

Life saving skills – the BHF currently offers free CPR kits to schools and is working with the Department of Health to distribute defibrillators throughout England.

In 2015 The British Heart Foundation had an income of just over £133m. In 2015 the BHF spent £102.5 million on funding cardiovascular research and £30.8 million on prevention, survival and support activities.

5-National Health Service :

About the NHS:

“National Health Service“ is in fifth position in our list. The NHS has a fanatic view of the current healthcare system. They are living in a delusion that the poor are getting the same treatment as the rich and the civilians are also made to believe this myth blindly. The NHS was launched in 1948.It was born out of a long-held ideal that good healthcare should be available to all, regardless of wealth – one of the NHS’s core principles. NHS in England remains free at the point of use for all UK residents. This currently stands at more than 64.6 million people in the UK and 54.3 million people in England alone.

The NHS in England deals with over 1 million patients every 36 hours. It covers everything, including antenatal screening, routine screenings (such as the NHS Health Check), treatments for long-term conditions, transplants, emergency treatment and end-of-life care.

 Structure of the NHS in England:

In 2014, the Commonwealth Fund declared that in comparison with the healthcare systems of 10 other countries (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the US) the NHS was the most impressive overall. The NHS was rated as the best system in terms of efficiency, effective care, safe care, co-ordinated care, patient-centred care and cost-related problems. 

The NHS in England is the biggest part of the system by far, catering to a population of 54.3 million and employing around 1.2 million people. Of those, the clinically qualified staff include 150,273 doctors, 40,584 general practitioners (GPs), 314,966 nurses and health visitors, 18,862 ambulance staff, and 111,127 hospital and community health service (HCHS) medical and dental staff.

Funding:

Funding for the NHS comes directly from taxation. Since the NHS transformation in 2013, the NHS payment system has become underpinned by legislation. The Health & Social Care Act 2012 moves responsibility for pricing from the Department of Health, to a shared responsibility for NHS England and NHS Improvement. When the NHS was launched in 1948, it had a budget of £437 million (roughly £15 billion at today’s value). For 2015/16, the overall NHS budget was around £116.4 billion. NHS England is managing £101.3 billion of this.

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Welfare organizations are working in the healthcare industry to eliminate all kinds of discrimination between patients. These organizations are also alleviating other social prejudices, that often refrains the poor population from accessing emergency healthcare.

Welfare Organizations are backed by technical resources and appropriate organizational capacity, to implement their missions. These organizations show zero tolerance to the despair of humanity.

Welfare organizations believe healthcare to be one of the human rights of people, and thus they are working sincerely to fulfill their social responsibilities for the well-being of people. They are also working to enhance social integration, and improve the world by advocating for the rights of the vulnerable population.

In today’s era, every individual has set out on a crazy pursuit of happiness. Although they are blessed with all the luxuries of life yet they are not satisfied.

Many people feel that they are being eaten up by their restlessness and desperation inside. Therefore we need to free our souls in the servitude of others.

Our existence on this earth has a special purpose and we need to remind ourselves, that we are here to serve for something much larger than only ourselves.

By donating a little portion of our money we could feel inner satisfaction. We can only find contentment within our hearts if we start giving selflessly to the unfortunate ones.

It is high time that we should open our hearts and donate to strengthen the hands of those reliable organizations, who are working sincerely to provide free medical care to people in need in the UK.

We have lived enough for ourselves; let us now live for others