Health

Rose Anderson

Rose Anderson leads on health issues on behalf on the Foundation. She is a former nurse who retired from the NHS in 2005 and now works as a management consultant. Rose has been involved with support for Nahaqi Hospital since Dr Zaman first arrived in the North West of England. Initially a training programme was provided for two nurses from Nahaqi who visited Blackpool Victoria Hospital. Soon there was a much wider circle of supporters and when the Abaseen Foundation UK was formed Rose became a Trustee and latterly has taken the lead for health. In January 2007 she visted Nahaqi Hospital and the earthquake villages supported by the foundation.

The Foundation has a strong track record in delivering sustainable projects in healthcare. This includes taking on responsibility for Nahaqi Hospital; a non functioning 22 bedded Government Emergency Satellite Hospital on the edge of Peshawar, its equipment, staff (who continued to be paid by the Government) and infrastructure. Today, through a unique partnership between the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the AF UK and PK, the hospital is providing healthcare that makes a real difference to local people. The hospital is very near to becoming self sustainable and is regularly treating 70,000 people per year as opposed to 13,000 in 2001. It is regarded as the model “public/private partnership” in NWFP. Building on this projects further health projects have been developed including entering into a similar arrangement with a government hospital in Swat and a range of mother and child community projects in Swat and Kohat.

Fully funded projects

Child Nutrition in the Brick Kilns area

The information from this project will be used to develop healthcare education messages such as importance of vaccination, healthy eating during pregnancy, benefits of breast feeding. The quantitative data will be used to lever local funds for the development of a nutrition support clinic for mothers and infants in this community.

Health units we support

Kabal Hospital

This is a very poorly performing hospital approximately 1 hours drive north of Mingora in Lower Swat Valley in the flood affected area. The people who need this hospital have as in Project One been hit by two disasters, first the Taliban and second the floods. The Abaseen Foundation has a track record of successfully transforming a non functioning hospital at Nahaqi Hospital in Charsadda and is well placed to repeat the model that they have developed in this hospital. These people need good health care and a modest amount of capital investment could transform the services in Kabal hospital and the people in this area are much in need of health services.

Nahaqi Hospital

Since 2002, when the Abaseen Foundation secured a 10 year lease at Nahaqi Hospital the Foundation has been providing quality healthcare in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa .

Nahaqi Hospital has benefited from regular revenue, well-supported staff and the introduction of new facilities, including a mother and baby unit and operating theatre for minor surgery.

Now approaching self-sustainability, the once non-functioning but fully staffed 22 bedded emergency satellite hospital has seen patient numbers increase from 13,000 to 70,000 over the last five years.

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