Helping Arthritis Patients Fight Disability

Rizwana is a teacher by profession. She is 35 years old and is a patient of Psoriatic Arthritis for the last 10 years due to which she could not walk as the pain was unbearable when tried.  She came to the Rheumatology department of Fatima Memorial Hospital which works in collaboration with the Arthritis Care Foundation and diagnosed her illness and advised her to start her treatment.

Given her family background, the expensive treatment required was not affordable by her family. Arthritis Care Foundation (ACF) is bearing all her treatment expenses and Sponsoring Enbrel Injections which costs around Rs. 516,250 (3692.68$). Today, she is improving day by day and is able to walk towards a better life.

Similarly there are many patients who used to come to our Rheumatology department and are unable to bear the expenses. We need your generous support to provide continuous treatment to poor patients.

Arthritis Care Foundation (ACF) in collaboration with Fatima Memorial Hospital continues to serve many patients who cannot afford the treatment expenses.

If we had not provided this treatment, she would not have been able to walk; this has only been possible through your generous support.

The disease can strike at any time and without proper care can lead to severe disabilities affecting patients for a lifetime. However, today through early diagnosis and extensive treatment rheumatologists can significantly help prevent disability and death in patients suffering from rheumatic diseases.

We request you to please support us and make us able to provide free treatment regardless any means.

We thank you for your generous support.

Arthritis is a disorder that causes pain, stiffness and swelling in or around joints and is a chronic disorder affecting about 14 million Pakistanis and nearly 50 percent of people of over 71 years.

If a patient is diagnosed and treated wrongly, they can become disabled for whole life. Arthritis brutally attacks the minor joints of the body. When the problem reaches its peak, medicine cannot cure it, and then surgery has to be performed to save the patient's life. Joints pain is very common in Pakistan. There is no age limit to catch this ailment. People ignore the symptoms of arthritis and avoid seeing a qualified doctor.

Fatima Memorial Hospital in collaboration with Arthritis Care Foundation (ACF) has been effortlessly helping the needy patients to overcome this painful disease by providing free or subsidized treatment. The major concern for the Hospital is that the number of patients is increasing and it has become extremely difficult to provide assistance without our donors help.

A large number of patients come to Fatima Memorial Hospital with a hope that they will be able to walk again. With your generous support in this cause is requested so that we can ensure they receive timely and proper treatment.

Through donations from our worthy donors, Fatima Memorial Hospital has made growth in terms of its services and providing free care to patients admitted at FMH. We provide free medication, biologists, diagnostics, joint replacement and expensive treatment to deserving patients from all walks of life. However, as mentioned above, the increasing patient flow is the only concern for which support in terms of donations also needs to increase.

We urge our new and old donors, our valued partners in this cause to help us with open arms so that we can eradicate this disease from Pakistan.

Thank you!