IDP Relief Updates

We are sharing some updates that we have accomplished in the recent past regarding IDP relief in rural Mardan district. So far, we are the only non-profit operating around the town of Rustum providing any medical relief. There are an estimated 100,000 IDPs in and around our facility with no doctor or nurse (barring our facility) working in that area.

Medical Relief Camp with DRIP and Disaster Managment Center, Abbotabad

May 16, 2009: we held medical camps for Buner Refugees in collaboration with Disaster Management Center (DMC), Abbotabad and DRIP (DISASTER RELIEF BY IRISH & PAKISTANIS) at various villages around our medical facility in village Zahidabad. A total of over 300 patients were treated. These IDPs were given free medicines. This was the first medical camp in and around are area where over 100,000 IDPs are stranded. No other organization is working in our area for medical relief. All concentration of medical services are in the city of Mardan and not here.

Ambulance Service

May 18:Each day, we encounter numerous patients that need to be operated upon or taken to a bigger medical facility for further treatment. Dr. Noaman Siddiqui (DMC) immediately connected us with Edhi Foundation. The Edhi Foundation has now joined hands with UM Healthcare in providing free ambulance service to the poor and needy including IDPs. So far, each day, these ambulances ferry many injured or seriously ill to the city of Mardan (an hour drive away) to a tertiary care facility for further treatment. Thus saving lives each day.

CDRS Pakistan Medical Relief

May 18: As our urgent call for doctors was sent out, CDRS Pakistan responded by sending us a doctor with medicines to for IDPs. This has reduced our work load (200 patients a day) on one doctor at our facility by 50%. CDRS team also works closely with us in conducting medical camps in and around our facility. So far, we have treated over 1500 patients with their collaboration.

Below is a small video of the IDP relief efforts done by UM Healthcare Trust