Health

Poor access to education and health care services serve as primary factors impairing women’s health development, leaving it undervalued and neglected. In an attempt to improve maternal health conditions and  to offer access to skilled health professionals, Shahid Afridi Foundation has launched ‘Mother & Child Health Promotion Center’ in collaboration with ‘Pahchaan’. The initiative started providing free of cost facilities from June 01, 2019 onwards. Under this project, patients receive maternal and neonatal services with routine checkups and free of cost medication. Along with maternal healthcare services, patients are also facilitated with regards to personal hygiene, mental health and family planning counseling.

• Provision of health education to the community through trainings
• Provision of a referral network for sick patients and child abuse
• Providing patients with check-up of routine illnesses and health concerns
• Height, weight and head circumference of babies are checked and appropriate advice is given to their mothers
• Maintaining a database of clients and conducting action research
• Prescribing and providing medicines
• Providing blood pressure monitoring charts to patients who are suspected to have hypertension
• Educating patients about their personal hygiene, as well as hygiene of the community
• Giving nutritional advice to each patient