Charitable Objectives

Developing World Healthcare has been founded by passionate altruists and clinicians committed to improving healthcare in the developing world. We promote the development of advanced healthcare infrastructures in regions of urgent need and invest the latest clinical and scientific knowledge to save and improve lives.

About Us

Vision

A world in which all people, regardless of their background, have access to world-class evidence-based healthcare.

Mission Statement

We focus on saving and improving lives by ameliorating healthcare inequalities.
We are passionate about reducing maternal and child mortality and morbidity rates.
We aim to provide each child the best start in life to help combat the vicious cycles of poverty, malnutrition, social exclusion and unemployment.
We aim to improve adult human health by active healthcare surveillance and timely investigations, diagnosis and management.
We are committed to developing and improving access to sustainable and effective hospitals by utilising technological advances.

Values

We base our values on the universal principles of medicine that is to ensure patients are our primary concern and to work to the highest standards of medicine, ethics and law. We respect and honour the sanctity and autonomy of human life and serve to respect patient dignity and confidentiality. We work with humility and compassion and ensure patients are empowered to understand their health needs and goals.

We aim to deliver our mission by harnessing the energy, creativity and skills of the talented people supporting our mission.
The charity embraces diversity and works transparently in a results-orientated manner to ensure an accountable, ethical and moral approach is utilised.

We work with mutually orientated charitable organisations, as well as educational institutions such medical schools to promote the advancement of clinical academia.

Goals

To develop a state-of-the-art hospital and diagnostics centre in Azad Kashmir.
To be the first hospital to achieve JCI accreditation in this region.
To cater for maternal and paediatric health, adult acute and general medicine as well as surgical cases.
To work with medical schools, junior doctors, senior physicians, surgeons and allied healthcare professionals to advance training and clinical development.
To increase employment rates through the running of the hospital.
To work with local and international organisations to ensure best practices.

To work collaborative with similar organisations to further the mission of improving human health in wider regions.

Our Approach

We are acutely aware of the altruistic and philanthropic nature of our donors and wish to reciprocate their encouraging sentiments by delivering tangible, clearly auditable and impressive results in a transparent fashion.

We believe in sustainable partnerships, collaboration and promoting synergistic inclusivity.
We aim to constantly improve and innovate to ensure our efforts and resources are used cost-effectively and are impactful.
We focus on sustainability to that we can develop, evaluate and enhance our services.
We believe in an evidence-based approach to inform our decisions and guide our work.
By accessing, developing and utilising established best-practices for healthcare systems we aim to take a catalytic route to delivering our goals and ambitions.

Hospital Location

We believe there is no better time to deliver this project in Kashmir especially as several new medical schools have opened in this region of Azad Kashmir and Pakistan, ergo several hundred doctors will be graduating per annum in the near future.

The hospital is being developed in the densely populated district of Mirpur in the Mangla region. An area bereft of any major developments or advanced healthcare facilities. This region receives many international delegations as it is on the border of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir, houses key structures including the Mangla Dam and Power Stations and many other historical landmarks. This hospital is sited a short distance from a fully operational medical school which will be instrumental to developing local, regional and national doctors.

Case Experience

Many of our patients are from poverty-stricken backgrounds unable to afford care offered natively; hence our intervention provides an opportunity to receive exceptional world-class care. Without this care there are many deleterious consequences - for instance a child with cleft palate will develop recurrent ear infections, deafness, secondary speech impairment, unable to suckle breast milk and therefore be at risk of developing malnutrition and brain development delay, as the child ages, social stigma at school, poor educational attainment and poor employment compounding the vicious cycle of poverty – whereas a short surgical procedure can prevent these complications and allow the child and the to have a fulfilling childhood