Over 200 million people call Pakistan home, yet the majority of them live in abject poverty.
The state of the healthcare system is inadequate, access to safe drinking water is limited. Women are still marginalised in society.
Numerous Pakistani citizens living in rural areas lack access to healthcare since the country’s healthcare system cannot keep up with the growing demands.
Abbas Foundation provides healthcare through free medical camping, free eye camping and Community health education programs in rural areas of the Punjab such as Layyah and Mianwali.
We have established a mobile health unit at Chak 13-DB, Union Council Wichveen Bala Tehsil Piplan in District Mianwali. This facility is providing free healthcare Including Medicines, Doctors Consultation & access to Ambulance in this deprived rural community.
Our Mobile Health Unit
Health Risks Of Cousin Marriages
Prevention of cousin marriages and associated genetic diseases
The issues surrounding cousin marriages have been well published in the last 50 years.
The disorders are correlated with the same DNA from blood related parents. The explanation is that each human is composed of 46 chromosomes. There are two sets of chromosomes taken: 23 from the mother and 23 from the father. It implies that a typical infant will inherit two sets of genes in addition to its own. In cousin marriages, familial diseases can be inherited as evidenced in many Royal families across the globe.
Abbas Foundation is supporting Public health education to prevent avoidable diseases in blood related marriages.
Seminar on Health risks of cousin marriages in House of Lords, London
Genetic Health Awareness Programme
Abbas Foundation supports community health education initiatives that raise awareness about genetic health risks associated with closely related marriages.
Through education and awareness programmes, we aim to help communities make informed health decisions, reduce preventable illnesses, and support healthier future generations.
Mobile Health Clinics
The majority of people in Pakistan reside in remote locations with poor access to medical care. Even though the government set up rural health centres and basic health units at the local level, the availability of high-quality care is restricted by underperforming and non-functioning facilities. Mobile health services are one approach to improve access and expand services in rural areas.
The Abbas Foundation has set up mobile health unit in rural South Punjab in response to the needs of marginalised groups. The MHU is a specially designed car that is stocked with medical supplies, equipment, and knowledgeable personnel. Its mission is to provide otherwise unavailable healthcare closer to communities’ places of residence.
The primary goal of mobile health care is to provide homeless and underprivileged individuals with accessible health services even if they are unable or unwilling to visit permanent clinics and hospitals. With your support we can expand Mobile Health Units to many places.
Medical and Eye Health Camps
Nearly 70% of Pakistan’s population currently resides in rural areas. Many people frequently suffer from serious illnesses due to farm yard and road traffic injuries without access to healthcare.
Abbas Foundation conducts medical camps in remote places to offer a range of medical services to vulnerable population.
We have team of physicians who volunteer in providing free medical care to the underprivileged individuals through telemedicine & face to face clinics.
Our focus is mother and child’s health and we encourage comprehensive prenatal health screenings, critical immunisations for moms and kids, family planning resources, and community educational initiatives.
Preventable blindness is common in Pakistan with 1.5 million people with blindness living in the Punjab region alone. In the absence of appropriate care and proactive steps, that number is expected to rise.
Abbas Foundation is combating blindness with the assistance of reputable community ophthalmologists and modern portable equipment. We are organising eye health clinics to assess the general optical health and vision of Pakistan’s most impoverished population.
Our free eye camps include comprehensive eye exams, free prescription and distribution of glasses, diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of eye disorders, and free eye surgery.
Hepatitis-Free Communities Around the World
Hepatitis affects millions of people globally, especially vulnerable communities with limited access to testing, treatment, and healthcare support.
Through awareness, education, and screening programmes, Abbas Foundation is working to help more people understand the risks of Hepatitis B and C and take early action.
With your support, individuals who test positive can receive the right medical guidance, pharmaceutical treatment, and ongoing care — helping build healthier, hepatitis-free communities around the world.
Preventing avoidable blindness
Regrettably, cataracts are a major contributor to preventable blindness in Pakistan as well as many other developing nations.
With your support, we can work towards stopping this avoidable blindness.
Free Medical Camps
Pakistan ranks among the top nations where avoidable diseases like polio, malaria, and tuberculosis continue to strike, despite a significant rise in non-communicable diseases.
With your kind assistance, Abbas Foundation, which recognises the urgent need to offer healthcare services to people who cannot afford them, hopes to conduct many more free medical camps in the most underprivileged areas.
Our medical camps treat intestinal infections, diabetes, bacterial and viral illnesses, respiratory, digestive, and urinary system illnesses, as well as dental diseases.
Free Ambulance Service
The goal of the Abbas Foundation is to establish a free emergency ambulance service. This is the first of its sort in Pakistan’s rural areas, and it also enables the general public to use ambulances for non-emergency home-to-hospital transports at no cost or at a reduced fee (to offset fuel and driver wage costs). In an effort to provide better services, our ambulance have participated in several rescue operations and are constantly in collaboration with other local and regional partners.
Provide artificial limbs to limbless adults and children
People can live productive lives With the Help of Our Prosthetic Limb Project.
Over 80,000 people in Pakistan suffer from infirmities involving their upper and lower limbs, and many of them are children.
The Abbas Foundation has partnered with charities in Pakistan that produce cutting-edge prosthetic limbs.
By providing funding for a prosthetic limb, you can help limbless individuals in achieving financial independence.
APPS UK FOUNDATION's Restore The Vision Programme, free consultation and eye surgery though our community ophthalmic team at Thal Mobile Health Unit site at Chack no.13DB Tehsil Piplan District Mainwali.Thanks to our donors and patients who provided consent for sharing their photos for fundraising.
APPS UK Foundation supporting reconstruction and rehabilitation work in flood affected areas of Pakistan. I visited Dera Ghazi Khan and neighbouring areas to get first hand information about relief efforts. Team Dr Abrar Khosa and Mohammed Anwar Baryar, Deputy Commissioner DG Khan are doing wonderful work.
There has been an enormous destruction due to floods in Pakistan especially Sindh. I visited the flood affected areas and saw APPS UK Foundation work on the ground from providing food, shelter and healthcare. Please support this humanitarian crisis by donating generously. Association of Pakistani Physicians and Surgeons of UK Foundation (Charity Registration: 1163957) www.appsukfoundation.org.uk
Safe & Responsible Operations
All activities carried out by Abbas Foundation in Pakistan are carefully risk assessed and delivered in safe rural areas of South Punjab.
Our programmes operate under strict safeguarding, travel safety, and operational procedures to ensure the protection of beneficiaries, volunteers, and charitable funds.