Physical Health Pakistan Project #7004

Improve Health for Mothers & Children in Pakistan

by SHINE Humanity

Improve Health for Mothers & Children in Pakistan

Project Report | Dec 15, 2014
Qamar's Story

By Seema Hassan | Project Leader

Dressing Qamar's wound

Dear Friends;

We are extremely grateful to you for your continued support of our beneficiaries. Here is a short story of how your contribution helps the neediest whom we serve:

One of our patients, Qamar, had been involved in a serious accident that resulted in a lower right leg fracture. His wife took him to a government hospital all the way in Karachi, where he received surgery and an external fixator to hold his fractured leg. However, this couple had been struggling financially and could not afford to return to the city to continue his treatment. After a few months of going untreated, Qamar's leg had worsened to the point where he was unable to walk.

Desperate for help, his wife came to SHINE Humanity at Aasra General Hospital in Gharo begging our staff to treat her husband. The following day, our ambulance arrived at the poor couple's home and transported Qamar to SHINE Humanity's project facility. Upon removing his old, dirty dressings, our staff at SHINE saw that his wounds were infected, the leg was swollen, and that he was also complaining of excruciating pain at the fracture site. Our staff immediately cleaned the infected area, applied new dressings, and provided medications to relieve the swelling and pain.

With regular treatment and monitoring at SHINE’s facility, Qamar's wounds gradually healed and the swelling subsided. Eventually, our staff decided it was time to remove the external fixator after consulting the surgeons at the government hospital,Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Center [JPMC]. The staff arranged for the procedure to be done at JPMC, after which he returned to our facility where we provided him with crutches for walking. Since then, Qamar continues to show great progress and can now stand and walk all on his own. Qamar and his wife are extremely grateful for SHINE’s compassionate staff and prompt care, because without it, Qamar may have never been able to walk again.

As 2014 comes to a close, we thank you for helping patients like Qasim and numerous others and look forward to your continued support in 2015 and beyond.

We wish you and your loved ones a Happy Holiday season and good health, joy, peace, and prosperity in the year ahead.

Transporting Qamar to JPMC

Qamar receiving crutches from the SHINE Team

Qamar starting to walk again!

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Sep 12, 2014
Project Update : SHINE Humanity -Aasra General Hospital, Gharo

By Seema Hassan | Project Leader

Aleem Before Treatment

SHINE Humanity has successfully revived primary care services at the Aasra General Hospital, Gharo. There has been a consistent growth in the number of patients at Aasra General Hospital with the number reaching over 2,000 patients per month since March. Around 50 percent of these are patients coming in for follow-up visits and over 80 percent of the patients are women and children.

We offer our heartfelt thanks to our dear supporters who enable our physicians to manage a wide array of patients from simple cases to more complex ones needing referral. Aleem, a 13 year old boy, came in with multiple infected boils and was treated successfully. Nazeeran, a very poor woman from the neighboring area, is mute and has no immediate family. She came with an ulcerated lesion on the breast that did not respond to initial treatment. Our physician quickly referred her to a tertiary care hospital, where she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She has begun treatment with support from the tertiary care hospital’s welfare department and a local donor. She continues to come to the Gharo facility for supportive care between her chemotherapies.

In May, the staff at this facility received cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training by members of the Aman Foundation—a major achievement in this region. Regular ultrasound service has also been restored, with 523 ultrasounds performed since July 2013.

With the support of a short-term grant from the International Pediatric Association Foundation, SHINE Humanity was able to start the SHINE Humanity - Aasra General Hospital Nutrition Program in July for mild to moderately malnourished children.

In July, SHINE’s executive director, Seema Hassan, visited all three project sites in Sindh. She is pleased to inform our supporters on the dedication of the staff, quality of services being provided, and level of patient satisfaction. The patients offered their thanks and blessings to all our supporters for the charitable services they receive at these facilities.

Aleem After Treatment

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Jun 12, 2014
SHINE Humanity Update

By Seema Hassan | Project Leader

Staff providing care to Shams and Najma

Dear Friends;

We are proud to announce that our proposed Nutrition Program at the Aasra General Hospital made SHINE one of the fourteen organizations to receive a grant from the International Pediatric Association Foundation in April. SHINE Humanity started services at the Aasra General Hospital on April 17th 2013 to provide outpatient primary healthcare, urgent care, Mother and child healthcare services, and health education for disease prevention. This short-term nutrition program is being added with a purpose to assist 27 malnourished children meet their supplement requirements and achieve a healthy growth. We aspire to expand on this program to provide nutritional supplements to more eligible children.

To further enhance the care for our patients, the staff at the SHINE Humanity -Aasra General Hospital have received cardiopulmonary resuscitation [CPR] training from the trained and experienced providers of Aman Foundation. This is a big accomplishment for SHINE because we are now one of the few facilities in Pakistan with staff properly trained in CPR which will make a difference between life and death of our patients in an emergency situation.

This year, we are set to help more needy patients than in 2013, as a little over 20,000 patients have already received care at SHINE’s project facilities from the beginning of January until the end of May.

We need your continued support to help us provide basic care to children like Shams and Najma who are neighbors belonging to very poor families. Both had high grade fevers and were brought in by their kind neighbors as their fathers could not forgo a day’s wages to take them to a physician. After initial laboratory tests, cold sponging and fever relieving medicines was provided by our staff which helped bring down their temperatures to normal. They were sent home after a few hours of observation and no recurrence of fever.

Many thanks for your generous support;
From : The SHINE Humanity Team

Aman Staff Providing CPR training

Children in the waiting area of the Gharo facility

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