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| "How and Why Depression is different in women?”: A Seminar being organzied by Karwan-e-Hayat (Saturday, July 31, 2010) Details |
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| PSYCHIATRIST Post Vacant in Karwan-e-Hayat. Details |
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| List of Medical Staff at Karwan-e-Hayat. Click here |
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Karwan-e-Hayat's Message of Awareness:
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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 2009-2010
Request for Donations and Zakat
We hope that you will find our mission and activities worthy of your support, and we earnestly look forward to your help.
Poor mentally ill patients have no hope of help unless they have access to free psychiatric intervention.
Please help us to help them.
Karwan-e-Hayat needs Rs.30 million for the year 2008-09 to maintain and run its two locations.
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| Male OPD at Karwan-e-Hayat Corporate Office on Khayaban-e-Jami |
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Donors in USA who wish to avail themselves of 501-C-3 facility are requested to make their cheques for donation to Karwan-e-Hayat in the name of Caravan of Life, a
501-C-3 organization based in USA, showing Karwan-e-Hayat in the Memo column. The cheques may please be sent to the following address:
Mr. Khusro Karamat Elley
Director, Karwan-e-Hayat
79, Further Lane
Chappaqua, NY 10514
Telephone: 914 2389691
For donors from countries other than USA, who wish to send donations and zakat by wire transfer, details of our Bank accounts are given at the back of this brochure. Also given is our mailing address for those who may prefer to send their donations and zakat through postal mail.
Donors from Pakistan can send their donations and zakat either directly to our bank accounts or to us at our mailing address.
As a large part of the treatment is given on charity basis, your zakat donations will be utilized only for persons who qualify for zakat. Therefore, please advise us if your contribution to Karwan-e-Hayat is on account of zakat. |
