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KARACHI SOS
VILLAGE
ANDY LANES
MEDICAL CENTRE
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The SOS Village needed a medical facility where
the health of its children could be monitored on a daily basis.
ALF funded the construction and furnishing of the SOS
Clinic, which
opened on 1st April 2005.
A doctor and nurse were appointed and the Clinic runs 6 days a week from 9.00am until 2.00pm. Darlington Rotary Club funded the doctor for two years.
The
Clinic
provides
health
care
not
only for the SOS children but also for the
women and
children of the surrounding neighbourhood of Malir, which has many
families
living in deprivation and poverty. Local
people come not only for diagnosis but also desperately hoping for free
medicine. Local pharmaceutical
firms and even the army donate medicines and others are purchased by
ALF.
Beautiful bright
green and red sun shading has been constructed for the waiting area of
the Clinic.
A
contingency fund has been set up to provide
necessary vaccinations for new children entering the village.
In 2006 the first 65 children were treated with a course of
Hepatitis B vaccinations.
In
memory of Bob Hayes, his family and friends
donated money, which has funded much- needed dental and eye check-ups
and treatment.
The
Andy
Lanes
Foundation
wants
to ensure that
the SOS children have the health care to enable them to make the most
of the
loving home and education provided by the Karachi SOS
Village.
This care is also extended to the women and children of the
local
community.
An important
part of ALF's work lays in facilitating free medical help, such as the
repair to Abdul's cleft palate.
Darlington Rotary Club supported our doctor for two years.
The Karachi British Women’s Association made a donation to be used for the purchase of water filter machines for the new SOS Youth Home.
A new SOS Village is to be built in Jamshoro on campus land donated by Jamshoro University. After a talk from Kay, the German Speaking Women’s Club of Karachi made a donation of Rs 120,000 and then, with a great deal of help from Mrs Ingrid Eckert-Prinz, the German Consulate agreed a donation of Rs 450,000. The total of Rs 570,000 was presented to SOS for the construction of a small medical facility at the new Jamshoro Village. After much delay, caused mainly by the floods last year, the new Jamshoro Village is due to be opened this summer, 2011. The running costs of the medical facility will be funded by ALF.
In 2010 Mrs Zahida Hashmi wrote the following report for the Pakistan SOS Newsletter.
"Our
medical facility, sponsored by the Andy Lanes Foundation, is a great
service to the community. Besides the village children it
provides medical care to the children and teachers of the school as
well as children and women of the neighbouring
community. We also provide regular antenatal checkups and
gynaecological examination and treatment to expecting mothers.
We are providing the community with regular immunisation with the
help of the National Institute of Health Care Programme and taking an
active part in the Polio Eradication Campaign. A member of the
mobile health service from the Health Ministry comes in weekly and
sits in the medical centre to vaccinate village children from the
village and surrounding community.
A series of awareness
classes was held for each House in the clinic. Dr. Saba talked
to the children and house mothers about dental/personal hygiene.
Fatima(6
years) from Lakson House was operated on for her squint eye in the
eye hospital at Memon Goth.
The total number of patients
examined and treated in the ALF SOS Medical Centre in this year was
4400.
Village 2800
School 700
Outside 900"
This year we are renewing and adding to the medical instruments and clinic furniture as requested by our SOS doctor.
Can you help?
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