Medicare Health Foundation Lahore
Summer 2020 Fd Equator
Medicare sponsored together with a grant from Dutch organisation Wilde Ganzen, MHF to combat COVID-19 with € 6800.
This week we agreed to co-operate for the Construction of Clinics in the New Medical
Block at Medicare Hospital – Noor Elahi Branch – Lahore
- The mission of Medicare Health
Foundation aims to establish a healthcare system catering to the
underprivileged, consisting of:
- 6 twenty-bedded community
hospitals
- 12 small-scale community-based
Mother and Child Healthcare Units (MCHs)
- 1 Training Institute for nurses
and paramedical staff
- The vision is: To ensure
the accomplishment of the following goals in underprivileged communities:
- Healthy Women through Safe Birth
and Gynaecological Care
- Healthy Children through
Paediatric Care
- Healthy Population through
General/Specialist Medical Care
MHF is a
non-profit organization, dedicated to providing good quality healthcare for
lower-middle income and underprivileged communities.
MHF was founded in the year
2000 and has established two hospitals and a Mother and Child Healthcare centre
(MCH) over the years. Presently only located in Lahore, the aim is to expand in
other geographical locations of Pakistan in the years to come.
At MHF hospitals, care has
been made extremely affordable, to make sure that those who cannot pay are not
turned away. At Medicare, the philosophy is that no one should be refused medical
care, just because they do not have the money to pay for their treatment.
The Medicare model focuses
on the part of spectrum between government hospitals and private medical care,
serving patients who cannot afford private hospitals but cannot be accommodated
in crowded government facilities. Many our patients are treated from donation
funds.
Initially only focused on
gynaecology and obstetrics as our in-patient services, MHF has now introduced a
range of medical specialties to serve many beneficiaries to the best of our
ability. Services include gynaecology and obstetrics, paediatrics,
orthopaedics, general surgeries, dentistry, diagnostics as well as out-patient
general and specialist medical care.
Target groups are low, lower middle-, and middle-income groups,
with a focus on providing affordable care for the middle-income groups, while
serving those living in abject poverty.
In
the Health program 2019-20, the following were the
organization’s intervention statistics:
-1,018 babies were born.
- 260,884 patients were treated in
our Out-Patient Department
-774 surgeries were conducted.
-12,231 patients were vaccinated
against life-threatening diseases.
-242,827 patients were given free
medicines.
In October 2019, a team of midwives from the Netherlands from the
organization “Mates In”, visited MHF in Pakistan for
improvement of the Mother and Child Healthcare centre. A two-day workshop was
organized in which they taught 30 nurses from MHF hospital and other charitable
hospitals in Lahore, on Intrapartum Care.
In terms of Projects:
MHF has 2 Hospitals and 1 Mother
and Child Healthcare centre, which are the focus.
Medical camps and awareness drives:
To ensure the good health of the community, we regularly organize free
medical camps whereby specialist doctors examine patients, who are also
provided free diagnostic services as well as medicines. We also conduct
healthcare awareness drives, so our communities develop the practice of
preventive care.
Mother Nutricare
program
Expecting mothers coming to
us from abject poverty are covered in this program, whereby we provide them
with eggs, milk, and essential vitamin supplements two times a week. This
nutrition ensures that these women deliver healthy babies while maintaining
good health themselves.
MHF wants to solve/diminish:
Medicare Hospital - Noor Elahi
Branch had a growth of around 15% in the out-patient department in 2019-20,
with an increasing demand for more medical specialities to cater to the health
issues of the community. Additionally, with around 40% of the patient numbers
being children, there is great need for a specialist paediatric clinic. In 3
years of service at Medicare Hospital – Noor Elahi Branch, MHF has realized
that in the morning shift, when there is a great flow of patients requiring
both general and specialist care, there is the need to have a higher number of
specialist consultancy rooms. The hospital has presently no space to
accommodate more doctor clinics but need to address this issue. The average
patient flow at this hospital every day is around 180-200 children < 10
years, 150-180 women between ages 15-65, and 70-80 men between ages 15-65
The project will lead to the
strengthening of the paediatric services by Medicare Hospital – Noor Elahi
Branch, and enables to manage specialist clinics to cater to
the growing needs of the community. This will greatly impact the lives of the
beneficiaries within the surrounding community and encourage underprivileged
people from other parts of the city to come and avail MHF services. People from
villages and smaller cities close to Lahore also come to MHF for medical care,
and after this project, there is estimated that this number will rise too.
The total amount required is €
35.000.
Equator Medicare will spend from
their resources but will ask new donors to donate together at least € 8500.
If we reach together € 23.500,
Wilde Ganzen will give a grant of 50%, to reach the
amount of € 35.000.
Dutch tax-payers can have
tax-reduction by donating to Equator Medicare because it has an ANBI status,
Public Benefit Organisation, under nr RSIN
8141.74.437.
You can donate to Equator Medicare
account NL14 RABO 0102 2735 96, earmarking with MHF Lahore.
More information can be given by
Dick Jungst, chairman equatormedicare@gmail.com
or Anum Qadri a.qadri@medicare.pk