Health Issues and Need Volunteer Work

The Significance of Volunteer Work in Addressing Health Issues on the Platform of Alfalah Welfare Organization
  • Lack of Access to Healthcare Facilities.
  • Poor Sanitation and Hygiene.
  • Limited Health Education and Awareness.
  • High Birth Rates and Family Planning Issues.
  • Lack of Emergency Medical Services
  • Environmental Health Concerns.
  • Infectious Diseases.
  • Maternal and Child Health.

Community Health Programs

Integrating Preventative and Disaster Relief Services into Community Health Programs: A Call for Volunteer Engagement and Organizational Development

However, health-related services usually emphasize degenerative disease treatment and rehabilitation, while prevention and disaster danger relief have not yet been sufficiently developed, nor integrated into future community-related service priorities. As a community volunteer service organization, it becomes indispensable to undertake program planning and implement and evaluate health and disaster risk reduction. These services also provide a sieve to channel everyday frustrations into more positive avenues.

Community-based Service

Community-based service activity in public health serves as a spiritual source for society. When citizens who live within a community participate as volunteers in general community services and health-related projects, they experience close interactions with each other and share the joy of being linked with a common goal. Community-based service agrees with the psychological needs, is selfless, and assists individuals in need, as well as the values of community culture and personal rewards. Medical-related service organizations and supporting sponsor units gradually develop and refine their individual skills in meeting the continuous and unrelenting demands of disease and disaster distress relief.

How to support?

You can support is in several ways. If you are part of the medical field, the best is to dedicate time. You can participate in these programs through donations. To calculate your zakat, you can you our online Zakat Calculator.

Promoting Community Awareness and Action to Combat Blood Donation

We are actively promoting community awareness to encourage blood donation, which is vital for saving lives.

Alfalah Welfare Organization is promoting awareness in the community to become blood donors to save lives. For this purpose, we continue running awareness sessions, workshops, and seminars with the help of volunteer doctors and health esports. We are also arranging free blood group test camps to raise people’s awareness of their blood group. We are organizing free blood sugar and Hepatitis C testing camps in the area from time to time.   

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has further complicated control and prevention since the advent of the HIV epidemic. The global epidemiology of TB-HIV co-infection is still emerging since there are few systematic surveillance systems. However, modeling studies still indicate that the proportion of cases of TB who are coinfected has been increasing in many parts of the world. India, Indonesia, and China account for 33% of global TB cases. In these countries, poverty, HIV infection, lack of access to health care, and over-reliance on ineffective and economically irresponsible services make controlling the TB epidemic, both drug-susceptible and drug-resistant, a daunting challenge.

Control of the TB

Control of the TB epidemic globally, particularly in these countries, is further hindered by malnutrition, crowded and substandard conditions, occupational exposure such as in mining, and environmental factors, including air pollution. Strikingly, research has failed to obtain strong associations between TB incidence in either urban or rural districts and reported hospital prevalence (from blood culture surveys) of vitamin and nutrient deficiencies or HIV prevalence, which further supports the notion that there is a missing key Environmental Reservoir of Infection in these settings.

Leading cause of death worldwide

Tuberculosis (TB) remains the leading cause of death worldwide from an infectious disease in humans. It is estimated by the World Health Organization (WHO) that about a third of the world’s population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, with 8-10 million new cases of active TB every year leading to 1.5 million deaths annually.

TB Treatment

Among the known TB patients, the vast majority will be successfully treated after either short- or long-term chemotherapy in a directly observed therapy, short-course (DOTS) program. However, treatment fails in 10% of cases due to drug resistance or poor patient adherence to chemotherapy. Under these circumstances, patients with pulmonary TB can infect family members, friends, and other close contacts. MDR-TB, in turn, can lead to the development of XDR-TB, rendering patients untreatable by most known anti-TB drugs.

How to participate to prevent TB?

There are several programs are running under NGO’s hat you can participate. Majority of the patients can’t afford treatment expenses. We encourage you to donate through charity or Zakat. To calculate your zakat, you can use our online Zakat Calculator.

Awareness Sessions

Awareness Sessions, Workshops, and Seminars: Conducted with the help of volunteer doctors and health experts to educate the community about the importance of blood donation. Join Us

Free Blood Group Test Camps

Free Blood Group Test Camps: These camps are organized to help individuals learn their blood group and understand the significance of regular blood donation. Join Us

Free Blood Sugar and Hepatitis C Testing Camps

Free Blood Sugar and Hepatitis C Testing Camps: Held periodically to promote general health awareness and early detection of these conditions. Join Us

Free Medication and Medical Information

Alfalah Welfare Organization also performs the noble duty of providing free medicine and effective medical information to the poor and needy. If a person whose health has broken down contacts this organization, the organization helps him. The organization also provides people with effective health information. Join Us