Later on Firdous told us, “I was worried during pregnancy, we did not have money to afford delivery in a private hospital, the government hospital is too far and overcrowded but when I got to know of delivery possibility in Muslim Charity’s hospital without paying any fee, I became relaxed and today I am thankful to Allah (most high) that everything went accordingly and I have my new baby girl”.
Firdous with her newborn baby girl, Farah, who was the first baby born at Muslim Charity’s Abdul Latif Tahir hospital on Monday 25th February 2013 in Lahore, Pakistan.
Her husband Khalid added, “we have been treated with respect and care and with the feelings that the life of a mother and child matters for Muslim Charity staff in the hospital”.
Abdul Latif Tahir hospital is located in the slums-like locality of Lahore namely Daroghawala, to serve the destitute community comprising of over 20,000 households.
Muslim Charity’s Maternal Health programme aims at saving lives and making women’s memories of their child-bearing experiences stay with them for a lifetime. Muslim Charity has established five maternity hospitals in Pakistan to provide vital and lifesaving maternal health services to ensure that a woman does not have to die while bringing new life into the world.
In Pakistan 14,000 mothers and 300,000 babies die every year within the first month of birth. That’s over 1,150 women in a month and around 40 in a day, 80,000 children become orphans each year due to the death of mothers during pregnancy, with a bleak future and no one to take care of them as their mothers did.
