{"id":4765,"date":"2023-10-31T10:17:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T10:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arraydigitals.com\/idf\/?p=4765"},"modified":"2024-09-05T10:18:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T10:18:50","slug":"a-glimpse-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arraydigitals.com\/idf\/a-glimpse-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"A Glimpse of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On a rocky elevated surface, in scorching heat and moist air, sat Abu Bakar with\u00a0his younger siblings, anxiously waiting to witness the new talk\u00a0of the town. Men in uniforms were setting registration tents on the shore, while women and children gathered behind covered canopy\u00a0in groups not less than 5. Everyone eagerly waited for the loud horn that\u00a0would signal the arrival of the\u00a0magnificent\u00a0Boat. Not just any boat, but Pakistan\u2019s First-Ever Boat Clinic by Indus Hospital & Health Network (IHHN)!<\/p>\n

Abu Bakar, a 20-year-old boy had been complaining about liver pain and acidity\u00a0for\u00a0the past\u00a04 years.\u00a0He is\u00a0a resident of a small Island in Bhong, in the district of Rajanpur, South Punjab, Pakistan. Surrounded by River Indus on all sides, he had to travel 3 hours to reach a small hospital in Sadaqabad\u00a0to get himself tested. Unfortunately, the hospital did no good for him and his pain persisted.\u00a0\u2018They (Sadaqabad\u2019s hospital) did nothing good, they did a lot of tests\u00a0but diagnosed nothing. It\u2019s like I wasted 3 hours of my life and almost half my income for nothing,\u2019<\/em>\u00a0said Abu Bakar once he got back from the hospital.<\/p>\n

\u2018When I saw this huge ship, I thought the government was trying to spy on us, but then a cousin of mine visited this boat and came back with not only a diagnosis but\u00a0a packet of free medicines as well. This is when I decided\u00a0to visit and I\u2019m so glad I did. Now, all 20 family members of mine visit the boat clinic for every small health-related issue,\u2019<\/em>\u00a0says Abu Bakar as he\u00a0stepped down the\u00a0boarding stairs of the boat.<\/p>\n

IHHN\u2019s boat clinic serves the vulnerable population of\u00a0the\u00a0Rajanpur district, where a doctor has never visited before. The catchment is home to approximately\u00a0105,000 people<\/strong>\u00a0with\u00a053% being women.\u00a0<\/strong>Initiatives\u00a0like these\u00a0are\u00a0the\u00a0solution\u00a0for many hopeless communities, who live far away from any development.\u00a0Thousands of lives can now be saved which were otherwise compromised because of the time consumed during travel or lack of resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On a rocky elevated surface, in scorching heat and moist air, sat Abu Bakar with\u00a0his younger siblings, anxiously waiting to witness the new talk\u00a0of the town. Men in uniforms were setting registration tents on the shore, while women and children gathered behind covered canopy\u00a0in groups not less than 5. Everyone eagerly waited for the loud […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"religious":[],"class_list":["post-4765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arraydigitals.com\/idf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arraydigitals.com\/idf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arraydigitals.com\/idf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arraydigitals.com\/idf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arraydigitals.com\/idf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arraydigitals.com\/idf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4768,"href":"https:\/\/arraydigitals.com\/idf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions\/4768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arraydigitals.com\/idf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arraydigitals.com\/idf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arraydigitals.com\/idf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arraydigitals.com\/idf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4765"},{"taxonomy":"religious","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arraydigitals.com\/idf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/religious?post=4765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}