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Mental health is an essential part of overall well-being, yet many people in Pakistan continue to face barriers to seeking and receiving care. Pur Umeed Zindagi, the flagship Mental Health Programme of Indus Hospital & Health Network (IHHN), is working to bridge this gap by integrating free mental health services into primary healthcare. The programme follows a community-based lay counselling model, enabling trained non-specialist health workers to support people experiencing common mental health concerns such as depression

The IDEA team is in Pakistan from October 4–8, 2026, for a five-day humanitarian medical mission in collaboration with Indus Hospital & Health Network (IHHN) and APPNA. This marks the team’s second medical mission with IHHN, with volunteer specialist doctors working at Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Hospital (RTEH), Muzaffargarh. The Mission The mission focuses on providing free specialised vascular care to patients requiring complex consultations and surgical procedures.  IDEA’s volunteer specialists are working alongside RTEH’s clinical teams, supported

Indus Hospital & Health Network (IHHN) has achieved a major milestone in transfusion medicine as two of its professionals earned Team Member status in the AABB Assessor Program. Dr. Shabneez Hussain, Head of Blood Transfusion Services, became the first physician assessor from a Pakistani institution to achieve this level. Joining her is Rabia Majeed, who also completed her training to become an Approved Team Member. The Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies (AABB) is a

When Rahmatullah’s grandfather fell ill, his family did everything they could to find him the right care. They first visited several hospitals in Quetta, where they were eventually referred to Karachi for further treatment. In Karachi, Rahmatullah took his grandfather to multiple medical facilities, hoping to find the care he needed. The search continued until a friend recommended Indus Hospital & Health Network (IHHN). At IHHN, the family consulted the doctors, who assessed his condition and

For most children, school is a place to learn, make friends, and imagine what they want to become when they grow up. It is where dreams begin to take shape. But for a child diagnosed with cancer, life changes overnight. Long hospital stays, frequent treatments, and weakened immunity often mean stepping away from classrooms, playgrounds, and the everyday experiences that define childhood. While their friends continue to move forward, these children are left wondering when life will

A child laughs in the middle of a hospital corridor. For a moment, there is no treatment, no diagnosis, no uncertainty. Just a child being a child. In paediatric oncology, moments like these can be easy to overlook. Yet for the children, families and healthcare teams who experience them, they can mean everything. Cancer changes a child’s routine overnight. Hospital visits replace school days. Treatments become part of childhood. Parents navigate fear and uncertainty while

The fever came on suddenly, in the middle of an ordinary school day, the kind of day Muhib had known a thousand times before. By evening, his mother Uroosa was watching doctors run test after test, her hands cold, her mind racing toward every possibility except the one she was about to hear.  Cancer.  The word landed on her like a weight she didn’t know how to carry. “It was intolerable,” she says, and even now,

Before a person walks again after amputation, they have to learn something more basic first: how to stand. Not sprint, not stride, simply just to stand, unaided, on a body that no longer distributes its weight the way it used to. Recovery is often described as a simple checklist, heal, fit the prosthesis, walk, but in practice it’s a gradual, closely supervised process, and physical therapy is where most of it happens. Weeks 1–3: Before There’s Anything to Walk

Dr. Abdul Bari Khan, Founder, President & CEO of the Indus Hospital & Health Network, has been honored with the 2026 James and Carol Hovey Eisenhower Fellowships Impact Award for building one of the world’s largest networks providing high-quality health care to millions of patients, free of cost. Dr. Abdul Bari Khan, an Eisenhower Fellow from Pakistan in 2004, was selected for EF’s fourth annual Hovey Impact Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement by an Eisenhower Fellow in generating positive impact

Some classrooms have whiteboards. Others have hospital beds nearby. For Muhammad Sadiq, learning today looks a little different than it once did. His school bag now shares space with treatment schedules, doctor’s appointments, and chemotherapy sessions. Yet despite everything, he is still, above all else, a student—a young boy whose future is filled with lessons to learn, dreams to chase, and a childhood worth protecting. When Sadiq became seriously ill, his mother rushed him to a