Project Mohsin

PROJECT MOHSIN – PATIENT TREATMENT

Each year 60,000 children are born with a congenital heart defect (CHD) in Pakistan. A large majority of these children are unable to get the heart treatment that they require due to lack of facilities and personnel and also due to the high cost of treatment. In line with its mission, Pakistan Children’s Heart Foundation (PCHF) continues to strive to provide top quality diagnostic and treatment options for these children, irrespective of their family’s ability to pay. Since its inception in 2012, PCHF has successfully provided financial and medical support to 2000+ children and their families at a total cost of PKR 670 Million.

280+ out of these 2100 children had their cardiac surgeries carried out at our own PCHF Child Heart Centre in collaboration with ULTH. We are operating this setup ourselves, with our own team of nurses and medical officers. Our aim with this setup is to provide the highest quality of care to our patients at the lowest costs possible. We are one of only three centres in Pakistan to be recognized by the International Quality Improvement Collaborative for Congenital Heart Diseases. IQIC provides benchmarking data for health care professionals and guides quality improvement efforts.

We have built partnerships with different hospitals and institutions around the country helping us strengthen the outreach of our programme.

• We have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Ittefaq Hospital Trust, Lahore until the start of our own specialized children’s heart hospital, we are getting the surgeries of PCHF sponsored patients done at IHT for a discounted rate.
• We signed the same MOU with other partner hospitals all over Pakistan such as Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Rehman Medical Institute in Peshawar, Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi.
• We signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Transparent Hands, another NGO, to financially sponsor 50% of the cost of treatment of deserving patients referred to them by PCHF.
• We have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Hameed Latif Hospital in Lahore; we hope we can help strengthen their paediatric cardiac surgery programme together.
• We signed a partnership agreement with Cleft Hospital Gujrat and Pakistan Cleft Lip and Palate Association (PCLAPA) for mutual referral of patients.
• We are in the process of finalising our Memorandum of Understanding agreement with Liaquat National Hospital, Karachi.

Our aim with involving these different healthcare institutions from all over Pakistan is so that we can provide improved access to quality healthcare services for children from all over the country, even the remote areas where currently there is no access to treatment.

PCHF is also offering free Outpatient Department (OPD) services for all their patients. This includes free pre-operative and post-operative echocardiography tests and cardiology consultation. In 2019, we have carried out a total of 1122 Echocardiography tests, 762 pre-op ECHOs and 360 post-op ECHOs.