Our volunteers are mobilising. Bring together your family, friends and community to fundraise for essential equipment and resources at Shaukat Khanum Karachi. This Sadaqah Jariyah could benefit you in this life and the hereafter.
Actor, Yumna Zaidi has a message from the Karachi construction site.
Karachi needs donors and sponsors for rooms, units and equipment. Below you’ll find a list. If you are unable to pledge towards funding the full cost of a resource, please contribute what Sadaqah Jariyah you are able towards our efforts to obtain them.
Contact us Become a founding member Build Shaukat Khanum Karachi
Each room or equipment you fund will bear a lifetime dedication plaque (fixed outside or alongside) featuring your group’s name. As Founding Members of Shaukat Khanum Hospital Karachi, your group name will also appear on the Founding Donor Monument to be built on site. In the case of larger donations, you and your family/group will be invited to attend an exclusive inauguration ceremony of the sponsored resource, along with hospital officials.
The Equipment Storage Room at SKMCH&RC provides a secure and organized space for storing medical equipment, ensuring that devices such as diagnostic tools, surgical instruments, and other essential equipment are protected when not in use. The storage room helps keep equipment in good condition by protecting it from environmental factors, damage, or misuse. By centralizing the equipment in one place, hospital staff can easily access, retrieve, and deploy necessary tools during patient care, ensuring smooth workflow and minimizing delays in treatment.
Contact us to fund this resource Contribute to this resourceThe Equipment Park Area at SKMCH&RC provides a designated space for storing and maintaining essential medical equipment when not in use. This ensures that machines such as diagnostic devices, radiation therapy equipment, and surgical tools are safely housed and regularly maintained. By having a centralized area, the hospital staff can efficiently access, transport, and deploy equipment as needed across various departments, ensuring smooth hospital operations. The park ensures that equipment is stored in compliance with safety regulations, reducing the risk of damage or malfunction due to improper storage conditions.
Contact us to fund this resource Contribute to this resourceThe Sub Sterile Room in the Surgical Oncology Inpatient is a critical space for maintaining the highest standards of infection control and ensuring the secure storage of sterile medical supplies. Maintaining cleanliness and organization, plays a vital role in infection control protocols, safeguarding the integrity of medical equipment, and supporting overall patient safety. This area is carefully designed to support surgical procedures by providing a clean and controlled environment for instrument preparation, ensuring sterility. Here, healthcare professionals adhere to strict protocols, contributing to the overall safety and success of cancer-related surgeries. The Sub Sterile Room plays a pivotal role in upholding the quality and precision of care within the surgical oncology inpatient setting.
Contact us to fund this resource Contribute to this resourceOur nursing staff are the backbone of Shaukat Khanum Hospitals, providing holistic care around the clock to our patients. All nursing Staff are supervised by our Nursing Managers, who carry a great responsibility. They have dedicated rooms, where patient and staff files are kept allowing them to monitor the clinical and administrative work of nursing staff effectively. Nurse manager rooms are also used for staff meetings and counselling.
The Karachi hospital will house several Nurse Manager Rooms, located near the nursing stations of respective wards and bays. These include:
- Chemotherapy Bay (adults)
- Emergency Assessment
- Inpatient Unit
- Intensive Care Unit
- Surgical Oncology Inpatient
- Surgical Oncology Inpatient (preparation)
- Surgical Oncology Inpatient (recovery)
- Surgical Oncology Outpatient
- Surgical oncology outpatient (preparation)
- Surgical oncology outpatient (recovery)
The Chemotherapy Bay is an integral component of the Oncology Department at Shaukat Khanum Hospitals, playing an important role in the treatment of cancer. At our Karachi hospital, the Chemo Bays (adult and paediatric) will have the provision of over 50 Chemo beds. Each chemo bed will be equipped with the necessary medical equipment used to administer chemotherapy to adult and child patients. You can sponsor:
- Adult Chemo beds
- Paediatric Chemo beds
Our nursing staff are the backbone of Shaukat Khanum Hospitals. And the Nursing Station serves as the administrative centre for nursing staff who provide care for our patients around the clock.
All Nursing Stations are centrally located and supervised by the Unit Coordinator who assists with paperwork, telephone and other communication. Before going on duty, nurses usually report to the station to receive daily assignments. Stations are equipped in a way that is appropriate for the needs of patients at the relevant department.
The Karachi hospital will have several Nursing stations, two of which will be based in the chemo bays for adult and child patients:
- Chemotherapy Bay (adults)
- Emergency Assessment
- Outpatient (adults)
- Outpatient (paediatrics)
- Women’s Imaging Unit
Recovery Rooms are where patients are admitted following surgery and anaesthesia.
The length of a patient’s stay in a recovery room depends on several factors. Sometimes after surgery, a patient may require medication to control variations in their vital signs, such as blood pressure, heart rate, or respiratory rate. A pain control regimen may also apply, involving pills, injections, or patient-controlled analgesia.
The Karachi Hospital will have several Recovery Rooms located in the following departments:
- Endoscopy
- Surgical Oncology Inpatient
Examination Rooms are where referred patients will undergo history and clinical examinations. Their vital signs will be recorded in the electronic Hospital Information system, and they will be provided with detailed information about the procedure and its aftercare. The Karachi hospital will have several Examination Rooms, located in:
- Chemotherapy Bay (adults)
- Outpatient (adults)
- Outpatient (paediatrics)
- Women’s Imaging Unit
Our Karachi hospital will have a sophisticated surgery department with the provision of 16 Operation Theatres. All located on the second floor, four of these rooms will be for Day-cases while the others will be used for all other surgeries.
Each Operation Theatre will be equipped with state-of-the-art medical equipment including:
- Operating Tables
- OR Lights with HD Cameras
- Anaesthesia Machines
- Ventilators
- and other monitoring equipment
The Inpatient at our Karachi hospital will be located on the third floor. Here, admitted patients will receive the best possible care from treating doctors including Oncologists, Residents and Fellows. Each inpatient room will be furnished with:
- Two patient beds (reflecting the Hospital’s commitment for dispensing equal treatment for all irrespective of a patient’s financial background)
- Two couches for patient family/attendants
- Two TVs
- One washroom
- Basic equipment for life support, for each bed, in case of emergency
Our Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Karachi will comprise of 24 ICU rooms. Located on the second floor, it will be staffed by a board-certified critical care consultant, formally trained respiratory therapists and ICU nurses offering one-to-one nursing services.
All rooms will house all the necessary medical equipment including:
- Ventilator
- Cardiac Monitor
- Fatal Monitor
- Infusion Pump
- Defibrillator
- Anaesthesia Machine
- ECG Machine
- Suction Machine
- Crash Cart Trolley
- Portable Ultrasound Machine
- A facility to perform continuous veno-venous hemodiafiltration (CVVHDF) and intermittent Haemodialysis for critically ill patients.
A Hospital Cyclotron is used to produce radioisotopes necessary for PET (Positron Emission Tomography) imaging, for clinical and research purposes. Shaukat Khanum Hospital Lahore was the first to install Pakistan’s very first cyclotron in 2009. Hospital cyclotrons have revolutionised molecular imaging with major applications in oncology alongside cardiology and neurology. With your support, our hospital in Karachi will have a Cyclotron Room in Nuclear Medicine similar to the one in our Lahore hospital.
Contact us to fund this resource Contribute to this resourceMore projects available for funding
| Storage Room | £8,400 |
| Radiology Department | £1,680,700 |
| Blood Bank Unit | £420,200 |
| Blood Bank Beds | £16,800 |
| Emergency Assessment Unit | £1,120,400 |
| Pathology Department | £2,801,100 |
| Women’s Imaging Unit | £840,300 |
| Nuclear Medicine Department | £1,680,700 |
| Clinical & Radiation Oncology Department | £1,680,700 |
| Endoscopy Unit | £980,400 |
| Ultrasound Room | £70,000 |
| Emergency Assessment Bed area | £22,400 |
Get in touch to find out more about funding one of the projects above. Please note when choosing the name you’d like to be displayed on the Founding Donor monument, we are only able to accommodate up to 20 characters.
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