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Karwan-e-Hayat (KeH) is a non-profit, charity organization and is active in caring for mentally indigent poor patients since its establishment in 1983.
Karwan-e-Hayat runs an outpatient facility at Khayaban-e-Jami and a Psychiatric Care and Rehabilitation Centre at Keamari, in Karachi.
It is the only non-profit, non-government organization in mental health field in Karachi.
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| Karwan-e-Hayat mission is to:
• Work for relief, prevention, assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of psychologically distressed and underprivileged persons.
• Raise public awareness and foster behavioral change in the community (by holding camps, seminars and other means) that mental illness can be managed with scientific treatment.
• Organize, train and maintain a team of dedicated psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers to provide the service of mental health care.
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KARWAN-E-HAYAT:
- Runs an outpatient clinic at its corporate offices on Khayaban-e-Jami, near Defence Society, Karachi, where nearly 500 deserving patients receive free psychiatric consultation and medicines every month.
- Operates the recently established Psychiatric Care and Rehabilitation Centre, near KPT Hospital, Keamari, Karachi.
For details on Karwan-e-Hayat's activities, please click here.
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| Patients being guided to produce art & decorative items at the Psychiatric Care and Rehabilitation Centre |
PROBLEM'S BACKGROUND – MENTALLY ILL PATIENT POPULATION
Scientific and accurate data on incidence of mental illness in Pakistan is not available. Global criteria, as developed by WHO, indicate that 10% of total population worldwide suffers from mental illness.
Using this global criterion, a figure of 1.5 million mentally ill persons is quoted for Karachi.
TREATMENT FACILITIES IN KARACHI
Treatment facilities available in Karachi for mentally ill persons are grossly inadequate.
Karachi has only 80 psychiatrists and 450 beds to treat mentally ill patients.
The city’s facilities for inpatient treatment of acute and sub-acute psychiatric patients are nowhere near the requirement. Karwan-e-Hayat works towards alleviating the problem.
Karachi did not have a centre for care and rehabilitation of mentally ill patients, until Karwan-e-Hayat established its facility at Keamari.
FUNDS REQUIREMENTS FOR 2008-2009
Karwan-e-Hayat needs Rs.30 million during the year 2008-09 to maintain and run facilities at Khayaban-e-Jami and PCRC in Keamari.
Donations and Zakat from individual philanthropists, business organisations, charitable trusts and foundations, etc help Karwan-e-hayat fulfil its mission of treating and caring for indigent mentally ill persons.
Poor mentally ill patients have no hope unless they have access to free psychiatric intervention. Please Help Us to Help Them.
Zakat and Donations are utilized to provide free medication and treatment to patients at both facilities, including free/subsidized inpatient care at PCRC.
Please donate to KeH. Click here for details. |
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| Male OPD at Karwan-e-Hayat Corporate Office on Khayaban-e-Jami |
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