Healthcare

Access to healthcare facilities is a basic civic requirement. In community settings, where day-to-day activities, including livelihood generation and child rearing tend to be shared among several households, increasing the incidence of epidemics, healthcare facilities become crucial. Compounding the matter, such communities neither have the means to afford quality healthcare nor easy access to adequate medical facilities. 

To counter this, government and various development organizations have made efforts to supply basic healthcare at the village level. But there are many issues such as lack of affordability and access, quackery and absenteeism of trained medical staff from community health centres which need to be addressed.

This is the reason why Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) has given priority to health issues of communities living in and around its operational areas as well as other parts of the country. Among PPL’s key healthcare initiatives are the Sui Field Hospital and mobile dispensaries in Sui and Mazarani gas fields. But this will change once the PPL Public Welfare Hospital, the company’s latest major healthcare project in Sui, becomes operational in a few years.

Working with local government institutions, PPL also arranges free medical camps for treatment of common diseases, medicine distribution drives and provides financial and in-kind assistance to urban and rural healthcare institutions.  

PPL’s CSR initiatives are particularly geared to extend quality healthcare to women and children – usually the most neglected segment among disadvantaged rural communities – who are generally unable to access quality medical facilities. The company has built mother and child healthcare centres in Kandhkot, Kashmore and Hala that are staffed entirely by women to obviate any hesitation patients may feel on consulting male doctors and paramedics.