Our founder has dedicated his life to improving the welfare of ordinary Pakistanis. He is unable to make an appeal for Shaukat Khanum Hospitals this year, but in his absence, we hope you will continue supporting our new hospital development in Karachi and show that we still stand together in the fight against cancer. Find out more
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Dr Faisal Sultan, CEO of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital, discusses the challenges of taking care of cancer patients in developing countries.
Then and now…
Our first hospital was established in Lahore in 1994 by Imran Khan. It made history in Pakistan: a comprehensive care facility dedicated to the diagnosis and the highest standards of treatment for cancer, on par with the quality found in advanced economies.
Since then, and with your trust and support, our service has grown to provide access, dignity, and respect for more patients including patients in harder-to-reach areas. We now have a second hospital in Peshawar, and Diagnostic Centres, Laboratory Collection Centres, and Outreach Screening Clinics nationwide.
At the heart of our operation is the basic idea that poverty shouldn’t be a barrier to cancer care. This is why 75% of our patients are treated for free every year. But free treatment shouldn’t mean poor service or equipment.
In the past year in Lahore, we replaced an old radiation therapy machine with a new multi-million-pound linear accelerator and opened a new 12-bed admission holding bay to improve patient flow. In September, as a step towards continuous quality improvement, the hospital received certification by the Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI) Certification Program, which is associated with the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
In 2024, in Peshawar, we have plans to expand our surgical oncology services for breast cancer, and we intend to open two new operating rooms. With the help of an endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) system, we also plan to expand our diagnostic capabilities in pulmonology.
In May 2023, we opened a state-of-the-art Walk-in Clinic at our new Karachi hospital, with the aim of improving cancer screening and triaging for patients in Sindh and Southern Balochistan. We remain grateful for your ongoing support in helping us reach new construction milestones this year.
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Did you know…
Shaukat Khanum Hospitals were the first hospitals in Pakistan to procure a PET CT scan in 2007. This imaging technique provides important information about the activity of cancer cells. Cancer patients in Pakistan had to go abroad to undergo this test in the past.
Our second hospital was inaugurated in Peshawar in December 2015. Like our hospital in Lahore, it houses all the specialised diagnostic and therapeutic facilities to treat cancer under a single roof.
In 2018, 2021 and 2022, we were awarded the Joint Commission International (JCI) gold standard for compliance with its internationally recognised healthcare standards. Today, we are the second organisation in the world to achieve the system-wide JCI’s Enterprise Accreditation – and the first in Pakistan!
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GIVE YOUR ZAKAT TO IMRAN KHAN CANCER APPEAL
The Zakat you give allows 75% of our patients to benefit from free cancer care throughout the year.
Read our Zakat Guide to discover who is eligible for Zakat, how a patient qualifies for Zakat, and about Zakat transparency at Imran Khan Cancer Appeal. Use our Zakat Calculator to work out your Zakat for this year. Pay the total amount of Zakat you owe today or start paying it in instalments by sponsoring the full or partial treatment of a cancer patient at one of our hospitals.
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OTHER WAYS TO SUPPORT OUR LIFE-SAVING WORK
The Zakat you give is used exclusively to provide direct patient care but there are many other ways you can support our work.
You can give Sadaqah towards the running of our hospitals and ancillary health services, including our Hospital Schooling Programme for child cancer patients, hospital staff wages, and purchasing and replacing medical equipment. You can even feed a patient by donating Sadaqah for every Iftar you have this month.
Give Sadaqah Give £50 FEED A PATIENT FOR 10 DAYS GIVE £150 FEED A PATIENT FOR 30 DAYS
MEET OUR DEDICATED PROFESSIONALS
Dr Sadia Abdullah is a Consultant Radiation Oncologist who relocated from the UK to work at our hospital in Lahore. Learn why working here gives her a unique feeling of giving back to the community in a way that doesn’t happen when working overseas.
Dr Haroon Hafeez is a Consultant Physician at Shaukat Khanum Hospitals and the visionary behind our ground-breaking Hospital Schooling Programme. Learn why his programme gives our young patients hope that they will get better and one day return to their own schools.
