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Community Health service
of Karachi Adventist Hospital
Vaccination for
children under five years of age who live in union council
of Moidan, Gadap and Songal.
Water and Sanitation
through ADRA Pakistan ( Adventist Development and Relief Agency)
Includes disaster relief
Health Education
for villagers of Moidan, Gadap and songal
Past community service
of Karachi Adventist Hospital
Primary care to the
poor: Throughout 1998 the KAH Health Promotion Department
set a mobile clinic daily to ten impoverished communities
in Karachi to receive primary health care at a minimal cost.
A Physician examined the people and prescribed medicines that
were carried on the mobile medical unit. Nurses attend to
checking of blood pressure, temperature and dispensed medicines
to the patients.
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Disaster Relief: In
May 1998 a cyclone swept through the fishing villages located
on the delta island of the Indus River near the por of Keti
Bunder. Karachi Adventist Hospital Doctors responded with
a medical clinic for the poor fishing villages. ADRA Pakistan
sent two tones of food to families who has lost loved ones
and livestock during the storm. Karachi Adventist Hospital
and ADRA Pakistan built 100 new houses and 74 fresh water
tanks for Kangro and Jamro Island villages. 300 quilts were
provided to fishing families for the winter of 1998 and 1999.
Visiting nurses instructed the villagers in health education
for better nutrition and lifestyle Project Manager Mr. Arshad
Inayat
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Vaccination Project:
For the past fifteen years Karachi Adventist Hospital with
funding from ADRA Pakistan has vaccinated children under five
years of age with vaccines provided by the Sindh EPI government
health department. These children live in impoverished villages
of Moidan, Gadap and Songal. Karachi Adventist Hospital has
always participated in National Polio Days by immunizing thousands
of children with the help of KAH School of Nursing Students,
In 2006 KAH vaccinated 30,000 children. Project Manager Mr.
Arshad Inayat
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Water Project: Five
years of drought have devastated source of water in Sindh.
Therefore, in 2001 Karachi Adventist Hospital with financial
aid from Australia, AusAid, and Hand pumps from the Pakistan
Army completed sixty hand pumps for impoverished villagers
who live in remote, rural areas of Sindh. More than 11,850
villagers, of Muslim, Hindu and Christian rural communities,
now have clean water nearby their home. Project Manager Mr.
Arshad Inayat
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Afghan Refugee Relief,
2002: January of 2002 Karachi Adventist Hospital employees
loaded a truck full of 25 tents, 200 quilts and mattress and
warm children's clothing. These were trucked to the Chaman
border of Pakistan and Afghanistan near Quetta. The Pakistan
Army pitched the tents for 25 families of incoming Afghans
for shelter from the bitterly cold winter nights. At least
332 Afghan refugees benefited from these relief supplies that
were funded by private donation from the United State of America.
Project Manager Mr. Arshad Inayat
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