Projects Undertaken


UM Healthcare Trust is currently working on the following projects at its Mardan facility.

  • IDP Relief: UM Healthcare Trust with its partners is currently working in providing urgent relief to IDPs in rural Mardan District in and around the town of Rustum. For more information, please click here.
  • OPD: Operating primary outpatient (OPD) healthcare center. The center will be expanded in Phase II to also provide investigative and in-patient services to the needy and sick. 
  • Ambulance: Operating ambulance service for moving seriously sick from rural neighborhood to hospitals in urban centers.
  • Tele-healthcare: Operating Tele-medicine and tele-healthcare facility at the Center for medical consultation from specialist doctors operating at distant locations inside and outside Pakistan.
  • Pharmacy: The need to have a quality pharmacy that can provide low cost (and free) medicines to the poor and needy.
  • Medical Testing Lab: A medical lab is needed at our facility to do routine tests like Hepatitis, TB, Diabetes, ECG, EKG, Ultrasound, blood tests etc.


Outpatient Facility (OPD)

Trust’s first project is operating a hospital i.e. a healthcare medical center located in Village Zahidabad, (180 KM North of Islamabad). Building for the hospital was completed in early 2008 and regular services have begun from September 2008. The facility is staffed by qualified doctors and paramedics. It will attend to immediate health needs of the needy people in the neighboring rural community. This service shall be extended free of cost to the poor and at subsidized rates, to those who can pay a little.


Ambulance Service

The Trust’s second project is to operate a free ambulance service to commute the seriously sick from Trust’s hospital to major hospitals in the District. Financial support is currently being sought for this project.


Tele-Healthcare Services

The Trust’s third project is establishing a Tele-healthcare system named Jaroka, developed in collaboration with Stanford University, APPNA and NUST. The goal of project is to connect the healthcare service providers at our facility with specialists in the urban centers of Pakistan and USA so that expert advice and diagnoses can be provided to the patients. Diseases like dermatology, cardiology, gynecology, radiology and others shall be extended to the poor and needy.
 
This service will drastically reduce the need for patients to repeatedly travel to cities for specialists opinion and diagnosis. They will get specialized diagnosis through Trust’s tele-healthcare services.
 
This project is undertaken in close collaboration with APPNA (Association of Pakistani Physicians in North America), Cyber.net (Providing free satellite based internet access for these tele-healthcare services) and NUST (Nattional University of Science & Technology).
 
 

Pharmacy

UM Healthcare Trust not only treats patients at its facility but also provides low cost (free to the destitute) medicines to the poor. The Trust is so far spending its own funds to procure these sometimes expensive medicines. We seek support and assistance in procuring medicines, so that the rural communities do not have to travel to the cities to buy critical and life saving medicines.


Medical Testing Lab

Due to non availabity of quality medical lab in rural Mardan, we are forced to refer patients to go to cities to get various tests done. This results in not only loss of precious time in treating the patient, but also forces them to lose work for day on account of travel. We therefore, seek to setup a quality medical lab at our facility which can do all routine tests including EKG, ECG, Blood tests, Ultra sound, Hepatitus detection, TB etc. We therefore, seek funds from donors to make this lab a reality.