“I’m so grateful to God and the medical staff.” Razia and her younger son had been each sick. “With our low income, we are unable to visit clinics or hospitals for medical examinations, treatment, or to pay for medicine,” continued Razia. But when a cell clinic, funded by Barnabas Aid, got here to the brick kiln the place she lives and works, mom and child acquired the remedy they wanted, freed from cost.

Not solely are medical providers too costly for Christians like Razia, they might even be bodily out of attain. Her brick kiln is in a rural space, distant from any healthcare services.

Christians in Pakistan usually work the bottom paid, dirtiest and most harmful jobs, akin to in sewers, factories or brick kilns and sometimes with out correct protecting gear. This can injury their well being. What’s extra, they can not entry healthcare due to the price and, in some instances, can’t make the journey to achieve a hospital or clinic. And with low or unreliable revenue, Christian households usually have a poor food regimen, additional affecting their well being and wellbeing. Bad well being also can have a critical impact on the household revenue: if the breadwinner is simply too sick to work, there aren’t any wages to take dwelling.

Mobile well being clinics – serving Christian communities and saving lives

Through your donations, among the poorest Christian communities in Pakistan have been blessed by cell well being clinics that convey healthcare to them. A van, with gear and certified Christian medical workers, travels to poor Christian communities regularly, to carry a clinic the place the sufferers are.

They supply free checkups and assist educate Christians on common well being consciousness and sickness prevention.

Where remedy is required, they will present remedy free of charge, assuaging the monetary stress for Christians who can not afford it.

And if a case is past the scope of the clinic, they will prepare for sufferers to see specialists for additional care.

“The nurses, practitioners, and other paramedic staff were always pleasant to us… and most importantly, gave us hope for a better life and health,” mirrored Razia.

Other sufferers have expressed their shock and delight on the medical groups working in these cell clinics, who additionally pray and encourage their sufferers with Bible verses.

“There was a severe outbreak that started in November,” stated Aslam, a Christian who’s employed at one other brick kiln. “It was an eye infection that affected all ages – men, women and children – in our village. I was so thankful to Barnabas Aid for helping us with treatment.”

Can you give a present to assist preserve these cell well being clinics working?

$13 may cowl the common prices to supply remedy for 30 Christians who go to a cell well being clinic

$30 may cowl the wage of a Christian nurse at a cell clinic for per week

$45 may present two weeks of gas for a cell well being clinic

$620 Ten presents of $620 may present a van to be transformed and used as a cell well being clinic to serve extra weak Christian communities in Pakistan