HOPE’s Zia Colony Hospital & School: Visited By Students Of Liaquat College Of Medicine And Dentistry.

Students of  Liaquat  College Of Medicine  & Dentistry  visted HOPE’s Zia Colony Hospital to get a feel  of how an NGO manages and runs  a Hospital with such efficiency. HOPE is a health oriented NGO in Pakistan  and has several hospitals in the slum, underprivileged  areas of Karachi and HOPE’s Zia Colony Hospital  is one of them. Though small in size, this hospital has a very substantial turnover of patients annually – specifically catering to the urgent needs of maternal and child health care covering a very large area where such facilities are otherwise nonexistent. Other larger, distant  facilities are not accessible to the low-income residents of such areas.

For the students  this visit was an eye-opener as they witnessed the  full  functioning of  a very busy hospital. They visited all the departments and met admitted patients  and OPD patients and interviewed  them  for their records. Dr Abida , the administrator,  made all arrangements including appraising them of  HOPE’s history as a Health oriented NGO in Pakistan  and showed them visuals of  HOPE’s other establishments.

 

The students also visited HOPE’s Secondary School located in the same vicinity where  Mrs Ayesha, the school principal and administrator greeted them and showed them   around  all the classes including the  computer and chemistry laboratories. HOPE is also an education oriented NGO in Pakistan and runs  several  secondary schools not just  in Karachi but also in Thatta and Muzaffargarh, Southern Punjab. Hope an education oriented  NGO in Pakistan, also runs as many as 200 home schools spread  over many areas of Karachi’s slums, mostly on the very outskirts of the city where schools  virtually don’t  exist.  HOPE’s schools do not just exist in Karachi or Sindh but a network of such schools are spread right  into the very north of Pakistan - into Azad Jammu & Kashmir.

 

As always Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, Chairperson of HOPE and child specialist in Karachi has been the driving force in setting up these schools and in ensuring they are successfully and efficiently run  - which is why these schools have been so popular in the areas where they have been established and enrollment of students have been increasing constantly. 

At the same time very much In keeping with HOPE’s  traditions , Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, Chairperson of HOPE and child specialist in Karachi,  strives harder with the passing of time to provide as much quality health assistance to the general masses as possible.