Charitable Community Services

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Charitable Community Services

Free medical services provided by the hospital, financed by the Abdul Halim Khan Foundation.

200+
Free cataract operations
~100
Vaginal prolapse patients treated
20
Children treated for club-foot

Programs

Free services financed by the Foundation

Access

Health Safety Card

Red and Green “Health Safety Cards” give holders treatment at very low cost, encouraging patients — especially in rural areas — to seek care early rather than waiting until a disease becomes chronic.

Eye care

Free cataract operation

Cataracts mostly affect senior members of the community and can be treated with a single operation. Camps have already served more than 200 patients, restoring their vision.

Women’s health

Vaginal prolapse camp

Pelvic floor dysfunction affects more than 50% of women over 55, and is often concealed and left untreated in Bangladesh. PAHMC has provided free treatment to around 100 patients.

Pediatric care

Club-foot camp

In partnership with Colin Macfarlane, Director of the Glancoe Foundation, twenty children with club-foot deformity were successfully treated.

Pediatric care

Cleft lip & cleft palate

A free cleft lip operation camp was arranged for marginal communities who often lack the awareness or means to treat these highly treatable conditions.

Awareness

Seminar on autism & its management

Held 15 June 2015 at PAHMC, with a keynote by Dr. Sultana Jahan (University of Missouri, USA) followed by one-to-one sessions with autistic patients, raising local awareness of the condition.

These low-cost and free-of-cost programs give rural patients the impetus to seek care early, instead of waiting for a condition to reach a chronic level.