Healthcon+ 2025

Importance of Health Screening Camps:

Medical camps are conducted by health professionals to carry out a limited health intervention amongst the underprivileged community. The general & poor attend these camps to get free check-up and treatment. Getting the appropriate kind of health checkup is vital for every human being and while considering it, some important factors like age, lifestyle, family background, and risks are taken into account.

Health examinations and tests at the early stages of the illness can help to cure it faster and save a life before it can cause any damage. One can live longer and healthier only when the individual gets the right kind of health check-up, screening, and treatments. Even the most basic checkups can identify underlying illnesses.

These medical camps provide the poor & rural population overall physical examinations which include eyes and health check-up, assessment of the functioning of vital organs like the heart, lungs, digestive system, liver, kidneys and the immune system. Free medical camps are extremely helpful for the poor population who earn a meager income and cannot afford expensive healthcare services offered by hospitals or clinics.

Objectives of Medical Camps:

A Free medical Camp can be considered as a life-saving program which aims to provide free medical and surgical services to poor communities living in rural or urban areas by a mobile team with varieties of medical specialized services. Some NGOs, Charitable Medical Trusts, and medical professionals are driven by strong ethics of medicine who believe that it is the moral responsibility and obligation to treat each patient regardless of their incomes, race or social status. The main objective of a medical camp is to provide initial care to people in life-threatening conditions which reflect the unique strengths and goals of medical ethics. Other objectives are as stated below:

Provide free and high-quality medical services for poor population.

Working as an emergency team in disasters nationwide (Earthquake 2005).

Raise health awareness among the community and teach them to deal with communicable and non-communicable.

Register rare and severe cases and refer them to specialized centers.

Evaluate the living conditions and determine the obstacles and challenges to work on solving their problems.

Refer medical cases towards surgeries if required (specifically to specialists).

Conclusion:

We obviously need to improve our failing healthcare system where costs are skyrocketing and the poor do not have the healthcare they need. Healthcare is a basic right of a human being which should be available for everyone and shouldn’t be treated as a commodity only for those who can spend money to buy the services.

The physicians conducting the camps are obliged to act in the best interest of the patients. They inform the whole truth about the diseases and treatments of the patients. Every patient attending the camps are treated similarly and cared for evenly.

Medical camps are solely serving humanity by taking care of the sick children and adults and giving them healthcare services for free. When the majority of hospitals and clinics are closed for the poor people leaving them to die from diseases, trauma and other health complications, free medical camps step in as their biggest hope. Even the poorest among us deserve the dignity of equal human rights which cannot be declined.

Performance Diary: Alhamdulillah, There were 500+ patients provided the healthcare awareness till 10th September 2018.

Mother Organization: Hussnain Islamic Medical Forum (HIMF) founded on 10th Muharram-ul-Haram 1438 Hijri according to 12th October 2016. It was founded by Mr. Muhammad Shahbaz Anwar, a student of medical & rehabilitation sciences in the essence of love to Hazrat Imam Hussain (R.A) at Chak No. 182 G.B. Chapianwali, Tehsil & Distt. Toba Tek Singh, Punjab, Pakistan. It is a developmental project of Teseer-ul-Islam Academy Pakistan (official).

Muhammad Shahzad Anwer M.Sc (Hons) FS&T (UAF) AFSO (Punjab Food Authority, Faisalabad)

Usama Bin Saeed EET (UET) M.Sc* (MC) Public Relations Officer

Contact Information: Muhammad Kaleem Amjad Project Coordinator Contact ID: +(92) 305-1964182 Social Website: [https://www.facebook.com/himf.official.pk/].

Clinical Linkages: 1) Riphah Rehabilitation Society, Faisalabad. 2) United Society of Physiotherapy, Faisalabad. 3) Pakistan Rehabilitation Students Council, Islamabad. 4) Oasis+ Clinics @ Manzar Medical Center, Faisalabad. 5) Safi Hospital, Riphah International University (Faisalabad Campus).