HOPE AND ASIA PETROLEUM LTD WORKING TOGETHER TOWARDS A COMMON GOAL

Mobile Health Unit clinics are accessible. With the right vehicle design and paramedic team behind the wheel, it is compact and can get to any place anytime.  A Mobile Health Unit can cut down the time when it comes to treating an emergency patient or even covering the medical needs of people in a large area.  This is a big relief for patients, who do not have transportation or access to medical facilities within their vicinity. 

Asia Petroleum Limited along with the collaboration with HOPE – A Health NGO in Pakistan are providing Mobile health Units to the rural areas of Karachi where no one reaches. This facility provides primary healthcare facility to patients in those areas and the surrounding villages.

Each Mobile health unit consists of a qualified doctor, a dispenser and a driver. The unit offers free consultation, treatment and medicines. Majority of the patients are women and children.

HOPE operates two Mobile Health Units which serves 32 villages on the outskirts of Karachi.  Doctors from Karachi staff these Mobile Health Units on a rotational basis.  The doctors set up “clinics” in the houses of community volunteers and treat the underserved population, mainly women and children.  Medicines and treatments are provided free of charge to over 80,000 patients annually.

With the rise in Corona cases and other variants the MHU team is also examining for Covid related symptoms in patients, by checking their temperature, oxygen levels, blood levels etc. Furthermore, the team also provides face masks and gives a training of the precautionary measures on how to avoid getting infected by the virus.

HOPE - An NGO in Pakistan strives to improve the devastating healthcare crisis all over Pakistan. Through the setting up of these MHUs, it helps move towards that goal, 32 villages at a time. Under the active leadership of Dr. Mubina Agboatwalla – A ChildSpecialist in Karachi. HOPE constantly works to improve the health and educational gap of the deprived communities in Pakistan.

 

HOPE AND ITS BATTLE AGAINST THE OMICRON PANDEMIC

As the Omicron variant of corona sweeps across the world, Pakistan has been affected too. The number of corona cases are increasing dramatically. People from all strata of the society are affected including the lower socio-economic class.  In these poor socio-economic classes firstly, people are hesitant to get vaccinated and secondly if they develop symptoms they do not get tested and infact never want to go to a hospital. HOPE - A Health NGO in Pakistan has started management and testing for the poor communities.

Dr. Mubina Agboatwalla – A Child Specialist in Karachi is personally supervising this operation. HOPE is helping in diagnosis of covid cases. In addition, free masks are provided to all patients. Masks are provided to all community members. Pulse oximeters are provided to all covid positive cases at home and they are trained to use pulse oximeters. Where necessary patients are admitted. However, home management is encouraged. In patients unable to maintain oxygen levels, oxygen cylinders together with flow meters are provided.

Oxygen therapy at home is the mainstay of treatment. This has resulted in reducing the rate of hospitalization in patients. Lives of many patients are saved. Free oxygen services have been very useful for the poor, moderately affected covid patients. HOPE - An NGO in Pakistan continues to provide comprehensive health cover in these troubled times.

BLANKET DISTRIBUTION BY HOPE AMONG THE NEEDY PEOPLE

Although the winter season is welcomed by the well privileged and wealthy people through fancy clothing, hot food and festive moods, it brings a lot of agony and difficulties to the poor people of our country. Quite sadly, many poor people in our country cannot afford to buy blankets during winters. In this scenario, especially women and children suffer more. Keeping in view the drastic situation of the poor, HOPE - A Health NGO in Pakistan, came as a ray of light towards the people who are helpless.

HOPE has distributed blankets to the people who have no source of help during this winter seasons. HOPE distributed blankets in the areas of Kolarchi, Badin, Thatta, Ghaggar and Sujawal. These areas are a lot colder during the winter seasons as compared to other areas in Sindh. The houses in these area are not very warm as compared to other urban cities like Karachi, where there are tall buildings to break down the flow of cold breeze. These blankets will protect the people from the piercing cold especially at night, it will help them get a peaceful and warm sleep without any worry and there will definitely be some reduction in the number of deaths due to the cold.

During the monsoon and freezing nights, HOPE - An NGO in Pakistan, found many poor people living on the roads who were helpless. There are millions of underprivileged who cannot afford even a blanket and die due to the intense cold without a roof or cloth on their bare bodies.

By the distribution of blankets this is a good gesture of helping out the community. Through the provision of blankets to the ones in need, it can make a great difference to an individual or a family, especially those who are homeless.

The temperature dropped further as many cities experienced more winter rain, but under the leadership of Dr. Mubina Agboatwalla - A Child Specialist in Karachi, the team distributed blankets to the needy people in slum and rural areas of Sindh as mentioned above. There cannot be a bigger satisfaction by helping someone when they are the most in need.

HOPE INSTALLS SOLAR ENERGY AT ITS GENERAL HOSPITAL IN ZIA COLONY

Solar power is energy from the sun that is converted into thermal or electrical energy. Solar energy is one of the cleanest and most abundant renewable resources, meaning it won’t ever run out or be in short supply. In just one hour, enough sunlight shines on the earth’s atmosphere to hypothetically provide electricity for every person on earth for a year.

Solar energy is the cleanest and most abundant renewable energy source available. In addition to being renewable, solar energy is typically labelled a “green” source of energy due to the lack of harmful environmental side effects associated with its use. While fossil fuels release greenhouse gases and other particles into our atmosphere, generating energy from solar panels is a zero-emissions process that can take place anywhere the sun shines.

H OPE – A Health NGO in Pakistan, whose primary motive is based on providing for the needy. Hence by saving its operational cost, which was being spent on buying electricity HOPE installed Solar panels in its Hospital located at Korangi, Zia Colony, which is producing its own electricity to power up the hospital. Thus in this way the money which would have been spent on electricity bills, will be utilized on providing other better facilities to the patients.

Under the leadership of D r. Mubina Agboatwalla - A Child Specialist in Karachi, most of the organization’s activities are focused on fulfilling the health and educational needs of the society. HOPE works extensively to provide quality education, health services and other basic necessities of life, free of cost to the underprivileged masses.

Solar panels cost money upfront, but that is a onetime capital cost, it will eventually save money on energy bills in the long term. HOPE – An NGO in Pakistan, understands the significance of this  investment and how it can benefit the Hospital and its patients in the years to come. Patients can benefit free of cost treatment. Also there will be no interruptions of power failure or fluctuations, since the Hospital will run on sustainable energy of its own.