RECORDER REPORT

KARACHI: Alamgir Welfare Trust International (Alamgir Trust) continued its services for humanity and facilitated millions of deserved people by spending over Rs1.6 billion during the year (FY18).

According to Annual Performance report of Alamgir Trust, most of spending was made on health sector as a number of people are unable to afford the health facilities in the country.

The report revealed that during the ongoing year, the trust has spent some Rs.500 million for medical aid to more than 300,000 needy patients. More than 500 patients are treated at the OPD every day and patients who need additional medical care were referred to other hospitals and the Trust bears the further expenditures for treatment.

Under the medical facilities, some Rs117 million were spent for treatment on hospitals, Rs150 million for supply of medicines, Rs20 million for Dialysis at the Rashidia Dialysis Center and some Rs72.9 million were spent on account of other health facilities during the FY18.

Shakeel Dehelvi Director Public Relation Alamgir Trust informed that Alamgor trust, for the past two decades the organization has been serving millions of homeless and economically deprived people and has earned the trust of its respected donors.

He informed that Alamgir Trust is providing pathology laboratory services with state of the art equipments. The laboratory has best quality reagents and well trained and highly skilled staff. The results have 100 percent accuracy level which speaks volumes of the expertise of the staff. During year, some Rs62.6 million were spent for over 1.58 million pathology tests, CT Scan, ECG, Ultrasound, MRI and other.

Under the Educational Aid Project, free school courses were provided to poor and deserving students at the beginning of every school year (March to May). Overall some RS 53 million were spent on education services. This year course books worth Rs26.2 million were distributed among 15 thousand deserving students while similar amount was spent on children pursuing Quranic studies. While, amounts of Rs22.5 million were spent for scholarship of students, he added.

Assistance in the marriage of orphan girls and those from poor families is also one of the earliest services provided by Alamgir Trust and overall some Rs60 million have been spent in providing all three packages at 1500 weddings in FY18.

The Trust distributes ration (essential food items) to those living below the poverty line. In the present year, ration packages were distributed among 18,956 needy families at the total cost of Rs40 million.

Like previous years, this year Alamgir Welfare Trust distributes more foods among 3.6 million peoples and some 615,000 director food packets amounted to Rs40 million.

During Ramazan, some 202,000 aftar Boxes were distributed and the Trust has spent approximately Rs17.1 million under this head. The aftar arrangements were made in different cities including Karachi, Quetta, Chitral, Islamabad, Badin, Tharparkar and Mirtayi.

In the outgoing year thousands of animals were sacrificed as Sadqa donation and the meat worth Rs320 million was distributed among underprivileged.

According to Dehelvi , the Trust is also known for its services towards pilgrims; the facilities provided to pilgrims include Hajj training programs, complete medical checkup (blood grouping and vaccination) and setting up lamps at the Hajj Terminal to cater the needs of the Pilgrims.

Every household has some useless clutter; the Trust came up with this innovative idea to make the clutter useful. The Trust encourages people to donate old furniture, utensils, clothes, electronic items, medicines etc which are no longer in use and gives them away to people who need them, he added.

The organization is also intends to build an ambitious medical complex which will be equipped with a state of the art hospital, laboratory, diagnostic unit, blood bank, ultrasound, x-ray and MRI Unit and emergency operation theatre as well as physiotherapy unit, dialysis center, pharmacy and a cafeteria. The complex comprises of seventeen storey twin buildings which will be built at a cost of approximately Rs340 million while the cost of the entire project is estimated to be Rs4 billion, Dehelvi informed.