Jahan ilaj haq hai, ehsaan nahin. Where care is a right, not a favour.
In most places, a hospital visit begins with a bill.
At Surraya Health Care, it begins with a hand on your shoulder.
Behind Misali Park in Shah Faisal Colony No. 1, Karachi, there is a gate that families walk through on the hardest days of their lives. A mother carrying a child burning with fever. A labourer who has worked through chest pain for weeks, because a day off means a day without wages. A young woman who needs a women’s doctor and has nowhere she feels safe to go.
In just nine months, that gate opened more than 10,800 times.
This is a hospital built on one belief: care is a right, not a favour.
The Day Amma Rashida Saw Her Grandchildren Again
Amma Rashida (we have changed her name) had not seen her grandchildren’s faces clearly for almost two years. A cloud had settled over both her eyes. The family knew what it was. They also knew what an operation would cost, and every month the money went to rent, to school fees, to flour. So Amma learned to recognise the children by their voices.
Her son brought her to a free medical camp for nothing more than a sugar test. An eye specialist examined her, gently and without hurry, and then said the words the family had stopped hoping to hear: this can be treated, and it will cost you nothing.
Weeks later the bandage came off. The first thing Amma Rashida asked for was her youngest grandson. She held his face in both hands and looked at him for a long time. Then she cried, and so did everyone in the room.
She is one of 54 people who received free cataract surgery through Taaluq Foundation in a single year. Her story is one of many we hear every week.
When Illness Arrives, Poverty Makes It Worse
In neighbourhoods like this, illness rarely comes alone. It arrives with a choice: the medicine or the rent, the doctor or the school fees. Too many families wait until a small problem becomes a dangerous one.
Surraya Health Care exists so that no family has to make that choice alone.
Care That Is Close, Constant and Kind
The hospital is open Monday to Saturday, 9 am to 8 pm.
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A General Physician sees patients every day.
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Every morning there is a Women’s Health and Maternity clinic, and every evening a Gynaecology clinic, so a woman never has to cross the city to see a doctor she trusts.
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A Dentist is there every day.
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On Wednesdays and Saturdays, a Psychologist, a Physiotherapist and a Skin Specialist join the team.
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Laboratory tests are done on site.
The fee is kept nominal. A patient who cannot afford treatment is guided quietly at reception.
Healing Without Humiliation
Being poor is hard enough. Being made to feel poor while you are sick is worse.
At Surraya, nobody has to prove their poverty in front of a waiting room. Regular families are greeted by name at reception. The doctors listen before they write. A patient is a person first, always.
No long forms.
No raised eyebrows.
Just care, with dignity, close to home.
Free Medical Camps: Specialists at the Doorstep
Last year alone, eight free medical camps brought specialists to hundreds of families who would otherwise never have seen one.
The next is on Saturday 21 November 2026, 10 am to 2 pm, at the hospital:
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heart, child health, general medicine, women’s health, eyes, skin, dental care, psychology, physiotherapy, and bone and joint care with a BMD test;
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free check-up and advice from every specialist, free General Physician medicines, and a free sugar test;
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50% off all lab tests on the day.
Full details of the free medical camp →
And this is only the beginning. By 2030, the goal is more than 30 camps a year and 100,000 patients a year.
The People Behind the Care
The team that makes this possible:
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Doctors who give their mornings and evenings here.
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A reception team that answers every call.
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A growing movement of young people — medical, nursing and pharmacy students and young professionals from across Karachi — who give their Saturdays to walk families from one specialist to the next.
For them, this is not a charity they watch. It is a movement they belong to.
This Is Not Just a Hospital. It Is a Promise.
A promise that:
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No family will be made to feel small for being unwell.
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No woman will be left without a doctor she can trust.
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No illness will be ignored because the month ran out before the money did.
See the patient.
Heal the patient.
Respect the patient.
And watch a whole neighbourhood heal with them.
Every patient is someone’s whole world.
Surraya Health Care Hospital
Shah Faisal Colony No. 1, behind Misali Park, Karachi
Reception 0336-4958222
Monday to Saturday, 9 am – 8 pm
Ilaj, izzat ke saath, ghar ke paas.
Not a charity you watch, a movement you belong to.
ثریا ہیلتھ کیئر
جہاں علاج حق ہے، احسان نہیں۔ ثریا ہیلتھ کیئر ہسپتال، شاہ فیصل کالونی نمبر 1، مثالی پارک کے عقب میں، کراچی۔ پیر تا ہفتہ صبح 9 بجے سے رات 8 بجے تک۔
علاج، عزت کے ساتھ، گھر کے پاس۔
دیکھنے والے نہیں، ساتھ چلنے والے۔ ہمارے ساتھ چلیے: taaluqfoundation.org/join/
معلومات کے لیے: 0336-4958222