Maria Rashid has been working as a Lady Health Worker since April 2014. In the HDF community clinic of Eno Bhatti in Lahore, she treats several patients daily and helps lessen the load for communities where there are no doctors on site.
“There is a lot of awareness and education and
knowledge thanks to HDF in the village. With my work at HDF, I have seen a lot
of visible improvement in the villages. Comparatively, government health
workers are not as passionate. They don’t even have proper equipment such as BP
monitors or weighing scales. Government workers don’t work like we do.”
Lady Health workers such as Maria work day in
and day out to serve the community members of the village. The Eno Bhatti
community Health Clinic consists of 1 lab technician, trained birth attendants
who are equivalent to nurses who do small trainings, 3 staff members, 5 helpers
who are female workers in the field. The clinic serves a magnitude of patients;
so far this year the Eno Bhatti clinic has served over 2,300 men, women, and
children.
The clinic assists nursing mothers, other
adults, and pediatric patients under five. They monitor children under five
years old and their growth including tracking all records of vaccinations and
malnutrition of children. “Through its work”, as Maria shares, “HDF is
empowering the HDF community of Eno Bhatti and its villagers”.
The HDF impact can be felt reverberating
throughout the village as you talk to HDF staff and the villagers. Through
their work they are improving the overall quality of life for their
beneficiaries focusing on all 5 key areas: Social Mobilization, Primary
Healthcare, Education and Literacy, Economic Development, and Sustainable
Environment.