HOPE ESTABLISHES AN MCH CENTER AT MANSEHRA, KPK

HOPE – A Health NGO in Pakistan has strongly emphasized on the concept of primary health care that focuses more on the importance of community participation by identifying some of the basic health needs required by the people living in the society based on economical factors. It includes the basic facilities required for meeting one’s everyday health care needs like conducting a regular checkup, maternity and child health care, basic OPD facilities.

Basic health care refers to the essential health care made accessible to individuals in a community at a cost which they can afford. The medical infrastructure and the healthcare facilities’ in Azad Jammu and Kashmir are insufficient as compared to the ratio of its population. Hence after the establishment and running of the MCH at Murad Abad, Kashmir. HOPE – An NGO in Pakistan has set up a new MCH center in the District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa through the blessings and funding’s of its donors.

To cater the existing issue HOPE has established another MCH Center at Baidrah, Mansehra, KPK.  Which is another maternal and child healthcare center where the primary motive is to provide medical services free of cost to the poor and needy. The area of KPK is a mountainous area where there are barely any roads or Infrastructure. People barely have access to hospitals and clinics nearby within their reach. Hence this MCH will serve as a blessing to all those areas near this clinic.

This MCH is free of cost like every other MCH of HOPE. It is operated by a qualified Lady Health Visitor (LHV), a dispenser and a maid. Treatment for men, women and children are being provided free of cost.

After viewing the success of the MCH at Murad Abad, Chikar, Jhelum Valley, Azad Kashmir Dr. Mubina Agboatwalla - A Child Specialist in Karachi, felt the need to open another MCH Center in the district of KPK,  she plans on establish more MCH Centers to improve the health inequality of the needy communities in Pakistan.