Justice and Human Rights Pakistan Project #2248

Providing Food to Families of Hospital Patients

by Fatima Memorial Hospital

Project Report | Jan 30, 2019
Food for Fasting: A road to Heaven

By Aazer Durrani | Head of Marketing

Fatima Memorial Hospital is serving its patients since 1977. Hospital provides free quality treatment to all deserving patients from all walks of life without discrimination. Till date, Fatima Memorial Hospital has provided free treatment to millions of needy patients and continuously looking to provide best health services to all patients. We at Fatima Memorial Hospital have treated almost 87 % patients free of cost. We prefer and look after patients from rural areas that are very poor and stay in our hospital for their treatment.

Ramadan is the holy month of Muslims in Islam which comes once in every year. There are many Muslims in the world who fast in Ramadan. People eat before Sehr as ordered in Islam and stay hungry until the sunset for Iftar. Fasting during the holy month is one of the five pillars of Islam, which also include prayer and charity. To fast, Muslims abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and engaging in sexual activity from dawn to sunset. In fasting, by refraining from the natural human urges to satisfy one’s appetite, we are exercising our ability of self-restraint, so that we can then apply it to our everyday life to bring about self-improvement.

In Ramadan it is also our obligation to look after those people who are poor and don’t have the food for fasting and Iftar. We should not forget those people since this is very rewarding in Islam if we care for poor people and give them food, shelter and clothes. The Prophet (Peace be upon him) said: “Whoever gives food for a fasting person to break his fast, he will have a reward like theirs, without that detracting from their reward n the slightest.” Live your life like every day is Ramadan and the Akhirah will become you, Eid.

We have many poor patients who got admitted in our hospital and they have their families who are living with them as their attendants in the hospital. Fatima Memorial Hospital and NUR Foundation provides Iftari to its patients and attendants as well as in routine days we serve food to many patients.

Providing free food to our patients in Ramadan and in daily routine on continuous basis is very difficult due to financial constraints. We are providing the free food to our patients only because of the generous support of our donors. To continue this cause we need your support on regular basis so that we can provide free food to patients without any break.

We request you to please provide your full support to us in continuing this noble cause.

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Oct 31, 2018
Food for Thought

By Aazer Durrani | Head of Marketing

Fatima Memorial Hospital believes in service excellence and quality health care for the ailing humanity. Philosophy of Fatima Memorial Hospital is cross subsidization where funds generated from affording patients are utilized for the benefit of underprivileged and indigents.

Pakistan is facing a serious hunger problem and the situation is likely to worsen in the coming years, according to a report by the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

The country is ranked at 106 among 119 developing countries in the Global Hunger Index, lagging behind India and most African states and standing at the high end of the ‘serious’ category.

Food security is a fundamental element of poverty alleviation. However, achieving it is a necessary but not sufficient condition to prevent malnutrition and ensure adequate nutrition for all. When there is an uncertain access to nutritious, safe and varied food for a household or an individual, that household or individual is food insecure.

Keeping in view the above facts, the Hospital is striving for improvement and continuously working towards providing the poor healthcare, food, and necessities. The trust over the years, has managed to provide quality healthcare facilities to the underprivileged. The sole purpose of the hospital is to provide quality medical care to the indigenous in every possible way. Now the Hospital is also making sure that the patients are provided with quality food at all times. The entire underprivileged patients visiting Fatima Memorial Hospital are provided with food.

In order to ensure these poor patients and their families are provided food, we require your maximum support. Iftar is the meal served after breaking of Fast in the holy month of Ramadan and since the patients come from very poor backgrounds a proper meal is sometimes simply not possible thus we serve our patients and their families iftari.

The Hospital is focusing on providing these patients with food through the year and not only limited to the month of Ramadan.

Your support has been immense and we would like to urge you to continue the same.

We look forward to further assistance from you.

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Jul 30, 2018
Iftar Meals for the Underprivileged

By Aazer Durrani | Head of Marketing

The Hospital is striving for improvement and promotion of health and education in Punjab, Pakistan. The trust over the years, has managed to provide quality healthcare facilities to the underprivileged. The sole purpose of the hospital is to provide quality medical care to the indigenous in every possible way.

In addition to providing quality healthcare to the underprivileged, Fatima Memorial also focuses on keeping the traditions alive and spreading happiness among these people by providing them with basic needs.

With growing population subsequent to which the increasing patient flow in the hospital, we try our best to cater to most of the patients by providing them Iftar meals during the month of Ramadan. This is a month of blessings and in order to provide them meals for a whole month, we require your support. In order to ensure these poor patients and their families are provided food, we require your maximum support.

Iftar is the meal served after breaking of Fast in the holy month of Ramadan and since the patients come from very poor backgrounds a proper meal is sometimes simply not possible thus we serve our patients and their families iftari.

This is a tradition we have always emphasized on and we continue to serve our patients next year as well. These efforts make us an institution that believes that every patient is a guest and we have to serve our guests and their families. Through your donations and support, we would like to carry on this goodwill gesture for future as well.

Your support has been immense and we would like to urge you to continue the same. This month is critical to us as we head into Ramadan and have to ensure maximum patients are provided Iftar meals.

Your continued support is our strength and we look forward to further assistance from you.

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