List of Top 3 Humanitarian Organizations Providing Free Medical Care to People in Need in Pakistan

Humanitarian crises is often referred to as a catastrophic event caused by natural calamities and man made conflicts. However, we think humanitarian crises is deeper and broader than its definition. 

Many of us are concerned about the people around us who don’t have food to eat, have no house to live in, have no access to healthcare, or are abandoned by their own families. We feel deep sympathy and agony by the pain of the unfortunate ones, and would really like to help but often we cannot make the right move because we really don’t know where to start from. 

The nonprofit organizations work for the betterment of the public. Nonprofit organizations also generate profit but it is spent for the community to do greater good. This simply means that nonprofits do not generate revenue for the purpose of harvesting income, and they do not serve for the interest of any individual.

“What if each person asked himself and herself every night just before falling asleep: ‘Did I make the world a peaceful place today? ’Imagine the world, when a significant number of us honestly can answer, ‘yes’.”-Dean Jackson.

Pakistan’s healthcare system is broken, perplexed and moving at a very unsteady pace where quality medical services are inadequate. The country’s healthcare system is struggling even after 70 years of independence, because the successive governments have never given it the required attention neither did they care about its reformation.

Healthcare is not a luxury but essential for survival in this world and is needed to be able to live a decent and autonomous life. Hence, healthcare should be kept free from all sorts of corruption and bureaucracies and no price tags should be offered on medical facilities. 

Islam is a religion that holds high principals for Muslims to follow and has urged them to practice humanity in every aspect of life. Islam has urged the Muslims to be empathetic and make practical attempts, to uplift those who lack the strength to cope with the hardships of life so that they can overcome the miseries and live decently.

True narratives can teach humans a lot about life, about us and about the state of others. Thus, many beautiful and thought-provoking incidents have been narrated in the Hadith, to teach humans about the spiritual significance of having deep faith in the Almighty, offering daily prayers and giving charities.

“True piety is this: to believe in God, and the Last Day, the Angels, the Book, and the Prophets, to give off one’s substance, however, cherished, to kinsmen, and orphans, the needy, the traveler, beggars, and to ransom the slave, to perform the prayer, to pay the Zakat.” -Surah Baqarah, Ayah 177 (Qur’an 2:177).

Zakat or alms giving has been made compulsory in Islam to invoke the love of Allah, truthfulness and humanity within the hearts of Muslims. Zakat is a mandatory giving to the poor and no righteous Muslim can deny it.