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.

While staff costs continue to be met by the Government, the Abaseen Foundation has and continues to provide financial and managerial support to develop the hospital into a service for a population of 200,000, 60,000 of which are Afghan refugees.

The facility has been praised by the World Health Organization for having one of the most effective hospital based TB community programmes in the country, while under its new health care standards, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa  Government has also identified Nahaqi as one of the best performing hospitals in the region.

In 2007, the Provincial Government formally reviewed Nahaqi’s progress and identified the project as the model government/non-governmental organisation partnership in the province.

The hospital’s successful development was acknowledged in October last year with the approval by the health minister of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa  Government to upgrade the facility to a 50-bedded hospital. This expansion allows the hospital extra specialties-status, bringing with it additional services and increased staffing, paid for by the government. The foundation stone was laid on May 29th, 2008 and the project, which will see the hospital double in size, will be completed and opened very soon.

UNICEF recently completed an evaluation of the Nahaqi model and concluded that this is the most successful model of its type in the province. With this is mind the Abaseen Foundation has been requested by UNICEF to replicate this model in the Civic Hospital Kabal in Swat Valley and this work has now commenced.