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Al-Khair North City Hospital · Karachi

We came to teach. We stayed because people were sick.

Since 2011 we have built schools on the edge of Karachi’s largest landfill. Our teams kept meeting the same problem outside the classroom, so we opened a small clinic. It has outgrown itself. Al-Khair North City Hospital is what comes next.

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A project of Thaakat Foundation & Idara Al-Khair
Where the hospital standsShare of each budget funded · Updated September 2026
Construction
Structure and building works
88%
Equipment
Medical and surgical equipment
20%
Furnishing
Finishing, furniture and fittings
40%

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How the hospital grew

Our medical services grew out of what our teachers saw.

2011
We partner with Idara Al-Khair and build classrooms beside the Jam Chakro landfill.
8 campuses
Schools grow to 8,000 students, with no affordable place to send a sick child.
8 beds
A small clinic opens in space that became free during the pandemic.
1,500 patients
Today 1,500 to 2,000 patients are treated every month, and the clinic runs past capacity.
Hospital underway
Al-Khair North City Hospital: construction is well under way.
Sponsors

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The latest from the hospital

The front of Al-Khair North City Hospital
September 2026The hospital todayThe newest photo of Al-Khair North City Hospital from our team in Karachi.
Surgeons at work in an operating theatre
In theatreOur surgical team at workMore equipment means more patients can be treated here.
Patients waiting at a hospital front desk in Karachi
At the front deskThe patients are already hereFamilies wait to be seen, every day.
Why this hospital

The nearest real hospital is too far, and too expensive

We are at double the capacityWe need to move fast.
No ENT specialty hospitals nearbyDespite 60% of our walk-in cases arriving as ENT issues, there is a lack of ENT specialty programs and services available in New Karachi and North Karachi. Our future hospital is the destination.
Expanding surgical servicesOur specialists have doubled surgical capacity but the wait lists remain long. Today, our clinic performs outpatient procedures such as tonsillectomies, thyroidectomies and hernia repairs.
A family waits to be seen outside a clinic in Karachi
A family waits to be seen in Karachi.
Bushra, a doctor, with a patient at the clinic in Karachi
Our doctors know the community

Bushra grew up here. Now she treats patients here.

Bushra was raised in the slums of New Karachi, one of nine sisters. Her mother, Fatima, enrolled every one of them in Thaakat’s schools.

She studied through power cuts and crowded rooms, by candlelight. She didn’t get into medical school on her first attempt, took a year, and applied again.

Today Bushra is a doctor. She sees patients at Thaakat’s own clinic, the one this hospital is being built to replace.

1 in 3+More than a third of Thaakat’s staff were educated in Thaakat’s own schools.
For physicians

Equip a department in your specialty

Equipment is the part of the hospital that most needs support. Fund the equipment for your specialty, or help our doctors decide what it needs.

The doctors
Dr Sarush SiddiquiDirector of Healthcare OperationsMBBS
Prof Dr Iqbal HussainMedical DirectorMBBS, FCPS
Prof Dr Naveed AnjumConsultant ENT SurgeonMBBS, FCPS
Dr Noman RaoConsultant AnesthesiologyMBBS, FCPS
ExpertiseENT and head & neck cancer · general surgery · general and laparoscopic surgery
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A doctor completes notes beside an anaesthesia machine
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