Top 5 Online Donation Websites Providing Free Medical Care to People in Need in Pakistan

Online donation websites are a relatively new thing. Since the Internet revolution hit the masses by storm, people with hearts aching for the love of humanity jumped up and decided to use this fascinating new technology to help the underprivileged. Hence appeared online donation websites as a phenomenon. Top 5 Online Donation Websites Providing Free Medical Care to People in Need in Pakistan

These websites call people for action, inviting them persuasively towards donating to people who are less fortunate. Even though it is perceived that such sites emerge mainly during catastrophes and collect donations for those struck by the violent nature, it is not really true. In fact, many donation websites work around the year, focusing on the medical needs of the poor people, raising funds for their medical expenditures and helping them survive and live healthy lives. Nearly all of the countries in the world have their own websites for this noble purpose, including Pakistan. Top 5 Online Donation Websites Providing Free Medical Care to People in Need in Pakistan

Pakistan is a developing country with a poor human development index, i.e. 0.562 as of 2018. This indicates that the living standards of a very large population in the country are not up to the mark, and the majority suffers at the hands of poor infrastructural development. It is true that it seems as though the medical and health care facilities, which comply with the modern standards of medicine, are only available to those who can pay thousands of rupees. The rest of the population finds itself forced to seek help from government institutions, which are not up to date, and are in dire need of help themselves. The result is saddening. Thousands of people die every year, in Pakistan, due to diseases that are easily curable, e.g. diarrheal diseases alone account for 6% of the deaths every year. It was because of this scenario, that noble people decided to act against this and strive to fill in the gaps the governments have failed to abridge. With the help of online donation websites, people grabbed the opportunity of projecting and conveying the medical problems of the underprivileged people and receive monetary assistance for them. Currently, there are many sites active which responsibly share the problems of people, ask for a fixed amount of money, collect the sum, and then deliver it to the concerned people. Top 5 Online Donation Websites Providing Free Medical Care to People in Need in Pakistan

Out of those many online donation websites for medical assistance, the article below lists the top 5:

List of Top 5 Online Donation Websites Providing Free Medical Care to People in Need in Pakistan

1. Transparent Hands

2. Edhi Foundation

3. Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital

4. Indus Hospital

5. Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation

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.

Download our TransparentHands iPhone Application for Online Donation

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. 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.” 

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:

Step-1: Sign up.

Step-2: Create your fundraising page.

Step-3: Donate and pass it on to your friends. If we all do a little, we can do a lot!.

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.

4. Indus Hospital :

The founder of Indus Hospital, Dr Abdul Bari Khan, and our co-founders served in the public sector hospitals for many years. During their time at government run hospitals, they witnessed the plight of the poverty stricken patients of Karachi. It was at this time that they envisioned to make a multi-disciplinary tertiary care hospital.

The Indus Hospital was set up as a tertiary care and multi-disciplinary hospital, with 150 beds in the area of Korangi. It serves as an absolutely free of charge hospital with no cash counter.

The Indus Hospital has now evolved into a Health Network, with hospitals and public health outreach clinics spread all across Pakistan serving the under-served population of Pakistan with free of charge, indiscriminate and quality treatment.

THEIR VISION :

Excellence in Healthcare for all to Please Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala.

THEIR MISSION :

-> To focus on creating an excellence-driven, comprehensive, compassionate, free of charge and replicable healthcare system accessible to all.

-> To be a not-for-profit entity, managed with the Islamic concept of Waqf and funded through donations and Zakat.

Clinical Services :

They offer a range of clinical services at the various campuses across Pakistan, which are as follows ;

Surgery & Allied Services :

• Anesthesia, Pain Management & Critical Care
• General Surgery
• Obstetrics & Gynecology
• Orthopedics
• Otorhinolaryngology /ENT
• Urology

Pediatric Services :

• Neonatal Medicine
• Pediatric Critical Care
• Pediatric General Surgery
• Pediatric Medicine
• Pediatric Oncology

Medicine & Allied Services :

• Cardiology
• Emergency Medicine
• Gastroenterology
• Infectious Diseases
• Internal Medicine
• Nephrology
• Pulmonology
• Family Medicine and Community Health
• Diabetes & Endocrinology

Blood Center & Laboratory Services :

• Lab/Hematology
• Lab/Histopathology
• Lab/Microbiology
• Lab/Chemical Pathology

 BLOOD CENTER :

The Center was inaugurated in October 2013 with a vision to provide the safest possible blood, meeting international standards to all segments of the society without any discrimination. With this the Center also aimed to mobilize the nation towards 100% voluntary blood donations.

Physical Rehabilitation Center :

The Physical Rehabilitation Center, with the support of International Committee of the Red Cross and CHAL Foundation was established in 2015 at the Korangi Campus in Karachi and has since provided 600 prosthetic limbs and 2000 orthotic devices.

To meet the growing needs The Indus Hospital expanded its Center’s services to Shahbaz Sharif General Hospital in Lahore and Recep Tayyip Erdogan Hospital in Muzaffargarh. All three centers now provide modern rehabilitation services to people with disabilities. These include prosthetics, orthotics, physiotherapy and mobility devices like wheelchairs and crutches.

5. Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation : 

“Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT)” started its journey as an eight bed ward in Burns Unit of Civil Hospital Karachi. Gradually this small ward expanded its activities. In 1991 it was granted the status of an Institute by an Act of the Sindh Assembly.

In 2005, SIUT Trust was created as a charitable trust for the benefit of the public, aiming to provide medical facilities and financial assistance to those who are at the end stage of renal ailments.

ThEIR MISSION :

• To ensure quality health care as a fundamental right of every individual.
• Provide free state of the art medical cover without discrimination.
• Treat all patients with dignity and utmost respect.
• Provide free medical care and not to turn away any patient due to financial constraints.

Services :

SIUT provides following facilities :

1. Dialysis :

SIUT performs on average 1000 dialysis sessions per day. The institute has state of the art machinery and skilled technicians that perform dialysis on patients each day. Over 368,700 patients got their dialysis performed at SIUT in 2018. The rapid increase in kidney diseases and end-stage renal failure, has also enhanced the number of dialysis patients that travel to SIUT each day.

2. Transplantation :

Patients suffering from acute renal failure can be best treated by transplantation. The transplantation in case of organ failure is two types:-

-> The Living Donor:

After tissue typing and pre-transplant checkups of both the donor and recipient. The donor has to be a family member to donate his/her organ.

-> Deceased Donor:

In case of brain death if the patient on the ventilator has pledged to donate his/her organs, then with permission of the family members, the patients’ organs are transplanted to a recipient. There are thousands of people waiting for a deceased organ in Pakistan. One pledge can save up to 8 lives.

3. Out-Patient :

The outpatient clinic at the SIUT is designed to function as a multidisciplinary clinic where cases are jointly seen by a surgeon, physician, radiologist, infectious disease consultant, dietitian and medical social officer. The clinic has the facilities for laboratory investigations and ultrasound imaging including uroflowmetry. The outpatient also houses a medical record room where the files have been cataloged since 1971. An excellent retrieval system allows files to be made available as and when required. The patients are seen on first come first serve basis.

4. In-Patient :

The In-patient service of SlUT comprises of 750 beds which are allocated to transplant, pediatric, adult urological patients. These patients are kept in pre operative and post operative wards.   

5. Emergency :

The Emergency at SIUT is working since the start of the institute. It has 24 hour services. There are both urologist and nephrologists working here. They provide several emergency treatments, from oxygen support to IV fluids, and emergency drugs. And all these supported treatments are given to patients until they are stabilized.

6. Unit Laboratory :

They are one of the fastest growing academic medical laboratories in Karachi, focused on Clinical Services, Teaching and Research. Their state-of-the art-technologies deliver best diagnostics to their patients. Supported by five ancillary diagnostic laboratories, they are strategically aligned to support SIUT’S programs, including the Hanifa Suleman Oncology Centre. 

Services provided at unit laboratory are :

• Chemical Pathology
• Hematology and Blood Bank
• Histopathology
• Microbiology
• Immunology and Molecular Biology

7. Radiology :

At SIUT, Radiology services started in 1980 with a mobile X-ray unit. Earlier, X-ray services were provided by the Radiology Department of the Civil Hospital, Karachi. Later, an ultrasound machine was added. The Department of Radiology was established at SIUT in 1993. Today, SIUT has a well equipped radiology department offering the following facilities:

• CT SCAN
• X-Ray
• Color Doppler Imaging
• Ultrasonography
• MRI
• Angiography
• Nuclear Medicine

 8. Operation Theaters :

There are 23 operation theatres in SIUT. They are well equipped with state of the art facilities, in accordance with high standards of hygiene and asepsis.

A wide range of surgical procedures are performed which include;

• Open surgery (Stone Surgery, Tumor Surgery, Reconstructive Urology, Trauma surgery with DIVU etc)
• Endourology
• Laparoscopy
• URS
• PCNL
• Minor urological procedures (abscess drainage, cyst aspiration, stenting, PCN, catheterization, etc)
• Renal transplants Vascular surgery (Central line placement, AV Fistula, Graft placement)

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The forces behind these websites are driven by sheer empathy for human life and sufferings. Those who involve themselves, in such a cause want to bring about the change health related institutions have failed to make yet. They do not sit idle, and wait for the infrastructure to fix itself and for people associated with the medical profession to take up responsibility. These people are determined to add colours to the miserable lives of the poor and unhealthy, and for that they strive hard. However, all of their work is based on the ability of common, more privileged people, to feel the pain of others and contribute their share wholeheartedly. Top 5 Online Donation Websites Providing Free Medical Care to People in Need in Pakistan

It is our responsibility, as humans and as civilians of Pakistan, that we try and give back to the society that we took from it, and share the resources we have access to, with the less advantaged. We need to understand that with the system that we have today, and with the corruption that prevails in the society, it is close to impossible that the deserving get their due rights. The allocated budget to aid this faction of the country is already very less, and sadly decreased almost every year (reduced to only 11,058 million rupees from 13,991 million rupees), and this too fails to relieve the worries of the impoverished because of high fraud rates in government institutions. Without the assistance of the affluent, the disadvantaged do not stand a chance and will be forced to suffer consequences they do not deserve. Waiting for relevant state departments to take affirmative action that guarantees positive results is useless. Therefore, we should all gather our efforts, take matters into our own hands, and donate as much as we possibly can to these websites, so that we become the citizens Pakistan needs to move forward.