Free Medical Camps
Weekend camps offering consultation, diagnostics and medication at no cost to the patient, in districts with no functioning basic health unit.
Impact so far
128
Camps held
46,000+
Patients seen
31
Districts covered
What it includes
- General physician consultation with no appointment or referral required
- On-site blood pressure, blood sugar and haemoglobin testing
- Two weeks of prescribed medication dispensed free of charge
- Written referral and transport support for cases needing hospital care
- Separate female consultation area staffed by women doctors
Our flagship programme is deliberately unglamorous: a team of licensed doctors, nurses and volunteers arrives in a village on a Saturday morning, sets up in a school or community hall, and sees whoever walks through the door until the last patient has been treated.
Why it exists
Across large parts of rural Pakistan, the nearest functioning basic health unit is an hour or more away by road, and the cost of getting there is often higher than the cost of the consultation itself. The result is predictable — treatable conditions go undiagnosed until they become emergencies.
A camp does not fix that structural gap. What it does is catch the cases that would otherwise have been missed, and put a record in the patient’s hand that they can take to a hospital if they need to.
How a camp runs
Registration opens at eight. Patients are triaged by a nurse who records vitals and flags anything urgent. Consultations run in parallel across three to five stations, with a separate curtained area for women staffed entirely by female practitioners. The pharmacy desk dispenses against a written prescription only.
Every patient leaves with a card recording their diagnosis, what they were given and when they should be seen again. A copy stays with us, which is how the follow-up register gets built.
What happens afterwards
Chronic cases — hypertension, diabetes, untreated infections — are entered into a follow-up list and contacted before the next camp in that district. Where a condition needs specialist attention, we arrange the referral and, where the family cannot afford it, the transport.