About Us
The vision for the Alma Bi Hospital came from Mohammed Younis, a UK resident and Royal Mail Postman in Watford.
Mohammed came to live in the UK as a boy in the 1960's, but he never forgot the suffering caused by poverty and lack of even the most basic medical facilities in the rural area of Pakistan where he was born.
In 1980, during a visit to Pakistan, Mohammed's 18 month old son Madani crushed his finger in a heavy door. With no emergency services to call on and with the nearest hospital a 42-mile dirt track away, it was only thanks to the nursing skills of Mohammed's wife Halima that Madani's finger was saved.
Six months later, Mohammed returned to Pakistan after hearing that his mother, Alma Bi, had been diagnosed with leukemia. With no access to medication or pain relief there was nothing he could do. Sadly, Mohammed returned to the UK a week before she died.
These two very personal experiences really brought home the poor conditions faced by the people of Pakistan and it convinced him of the need to do something practical to help. The mission to build and equip a hospital in the area has been his obsession ever since.
The Task Remaining
After tireless campaigning and the raising of over £500,000, the Alma Bi Hospital building is now complete and partially equipped. It has the potential to bring, free at the point of use, access to much needed emergency treatment, as well as 75 in-patient beds. Facilities are focused on providing general medical, maternity, accident and children’s treatment facilities.
However we still need to raise the funds required to complete the equipping and secure full time staff and building maintenance into the future.
The hospital has already hosted two special weeks of eye treatment, where more than 2,000 people were helped with common, curable eye conditions. It proved amply how the Alma Bi Hospital will make a significant and tangible difference to the duration and quality of life for people in this community when it is fully and permanently operational. Please help us to get there.