Syed Mashhood Rizvi, Executive Director, Communication and Resource Development, IHHN, welcomed the esteemed guests.
Rizvi presented an overview of Pakistan’s public healthcare situation and the supply and demand gap in the health sector. He elaborated on how IHHN’s existence was the need of the hour and how Indus has created a nationwide healthcare system based on self-help, sincerity, and love for humanity. He also provided an overview of IHHN management and governance. He briefed the audience about the six international partners and how Indus is helping create a pool of highly skilled healthcare professionals through the Indus University of Health Science.
He also provided an overview of average healthcare charges in the country for different healthcare services, which are way beyond the earning capacity of the majority of the population. In this dire situation, Indus came as not only an alternate but as the only ray of hope. Since its inception, there has been an increase of patient volume by 40%, with 450,000 patients benefitting from the services across the Network, monthly.
Mashhood Rizvi informed the audience that it is amongst IHHN’s most ambitious philanthropic campaigns to raise PKR 14.1million to treat the underserved and marginalized population of the country.“IHHN solely relies on Zakat and donations,” he explained, “and for us, Ramazan is a time of great significance in terms of the collection of Zakat. We are running a campaign to reach out to many current and prospective donors, locally and internationally, so that they can consider IHHN as the main contenders for their Zakat. We are focusing the Ramazan campaign on generating donations for running the network of hospitals, Regional Blood Centers, Physical Rehabilitation Centers, and primary care clinics across Pakistan.”