South Asia Life Center
WCF launched a Medical Life Center in South Asia. WCF sponsors the cost for the building of the Clinic, medical equipment and recurring staff, pharmacy, and lab and medical expenses.
World Compassion Fellowship (WCF) has set up a permanent medical clinic which will focus in northeast Pakistan. WCF has also started a monthly mobile clinic project in different brick kilns and rural areas where the health facilities are not available.
What We Provide:
Local staff salaries to provide primary medical care services
Subsidies for medication, specialist referrals, laboratory, ultrasound, and other services
Mobile Medical Clinics to poorer rural areas
Health care seminars and promotion for the community
Our Mission
The WCF Life Center is a community medical center that provides affordable and subsidized primary medical care to war refugees and marginalized peoples in partnership with local ministries that share the same heart and mission.
Medical Services
Primary medical care – such as infectious disease treatment and chronic illness management
Specialized care and referrals: women's health issues, pediatrics, perinatal care, psychiatric
Subsidized medication, laboratory, ultrasound, and other services
Health care seminars and promotion for the community
Our Clinics are all staffed with local professionals - a Family Doctor, Nurses, and other available specialists
The Background
South Asia is the 5th most populated country with over 212 million people. South Asia only spends 1 percent of its GDP on health which is one of the lowest in the world. The result is poor health indicators, high rates of mortality and morbidity from preventable causes, and severe financial hardships for low income households seeking access to health services.
As per WHO, the infant mortality rate (IMR) is 74 per 1,000 live births, and the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is 274 per 100,000 live births, which is higher than that of neighboring countries. Communicable diseases, maternal health and under-nutrition comprise around half of the national burden of disease. South Asia is one of the two remaining countries where Polio is still endemic. South Asia has the 7th highest tuberculosis (TB) burden globally, with hepatitis B and C endemic in the general population.
Service coverage of primary care services is suboptimal: 36% of mothers undergo the recommended 4+ antenatal care (ANC) visits during pregnancy; and only 54% of children are fully immunized. Noncommunicable diseases now constitute a significant disease burden among the adult and economically productive age groups. Pakistan is among the top 10 countries in the world for diabetes prevalence, one in four adults over 18 years of age is hypertensive, and 41% of adult males are smokers. As a result, one quarter of the population over 40 years are estimated to suffer from cardiovascular diseases. Most of the people in South Asia rely on private health care because of low quality services provided by the public health sector and private health care is out of reach for poor people.
WCF History In The Region
World Compassion Fellowship has treated more than 28,000 patients in 16 countries in our Mobile Medical Clinics since 2007. The Clinics provide primary care, treatment for infectious diseases such as malaria, treatment for acute and chronic conditions, and other needed medical services. Our medical teams have also provided health care seminars and health promotion on relevant topics such as hygiene, nutrition, and wound care.
WCF has provided COVID Food and Hygiene care packages to tens of thousands of people in Pakistan.