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Serving humanity has always been recognized as a
noble cause, while the nation that indulges itself into the
welfare of others is also known for its noble cause. In a
country like ours where majority population lives below the
poverty line, serving the needy is more than a noble cause.
In Pakistan there are various Non-Governmental Organizations
(NGOs) involved in imparting services to the mankind in
different sectors but only few could be found engaged in the
field of health. Throughout the world demand of health services
has dramatically changed from its major emphasis on primary
healthcare to the new entrants of life-style related diseases
like Heart disease, accidents, the most feared HIV (Aids),
Hepatitis and the fast spreading Kidney failures. Keeping in
view the monetary and human losses in large scale, there is no
alternative to attract the attention of our health planners to
match the demand of sufferings from renal diseases. The
sufferings of poor patients from renal diseases either have no
excess in terms of affordability or such services are meant only
for the privileged class because the treatment is too costly.
In NWFP there are only two hospitals that provide emergency
services to 20 per cent of the masses, while the remaining 80
per cent kidney patients belonging to the have-not strata of our
society cannot afford the expensive treatment. So, the result is
painful sufferings and ultimate death, and to combat this
emerging misery of kidney failures a missionary group of small &
medium enterprises from Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry,
led by Haji Abdul Hameed Gurwara, Chief Executive Javed & Co,
Importer and Exporter and Khawaja Aftab Iqbal Chief Executive,
Haji Noor Muhammad Tea Merchant Importer & Exporter Peshawar
city joined hands. This missionary group then accepted the
challenge with the sole charitable aims and objects, devoted to
relieving the poor and “Helping the Helpless”, and in 1999 the
same group set up an organization by the name of Ittefaq Traders
Community Welfare Program (ITCWP).
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about ITCWP.
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