The concept of Real Medicine Foundation Pakistan was conceived following the devastating earthquake of October 2005, which resulted in over 80,000 fatalities and left millions without homes in a remote Himalayan valley in Northern Pakistan. The idea originated during a meeting in a Boston café between Dr. Rubina Mumtaz Magsi and Dr. Martina Fuchs, who had founded the not-for-profit organization Real Medicine Foundation USA in 2004. This meeting led to a relief intervention in Balakot managed by Harvard University students.
For the first five years, the Balakot Health project was implemented through a local Islamabad based NGO and managed by volunteers on behalf of RMF USA. Following the monsoon floods of 2010, Real Medicine Foundation (RMF) Pakistan was officially registered with the Government of Pakistan as a local Welfare Trust, and as an affiliate of RMF USA. This affiliation, based on a shared name, vision, and website, allowed RMF USA’s humanitarian project funds to flow through RMF Pakistan. For the next decade, they provided health and rehabilitation aid to disaster affected victims across Pakistan. The partnership ended with the onset of the Covid pandemic.
RMF Pakistan has two wings of operations. The Humanitarian Service Delivery wing has offered free primary healthcare and Mother & Child services to nearly half a million poor and vulnerable Pakistanis through dispensaries, medical camps, and mobile clinics. This wing also has non-health projects focused on emergency relief and rehabilitation of populations who have suffered from natural or man-made disasters.
The research wing of RMF Pakistan, established in 2011, collaborates with UN organizations and universities in Canada, USA, and UK. It has successfully completed several studies on MHM, gender, poverty, and social exclusion. The collective aim of these predominantly qualitative studies is to identify innovative, contextually specific solutions to the many problems the poor and marginalized Pakistani women face under the umbrella of sexual reproductive health, maternal and child health and menstrual hygiene. Our research findings provide empirical evidence for the formulation of maternal health policies and health care system practices in Pakistan.
Country Teams consist of the corresponding Country Director for each country from the Global Management Team along with their in-country teams specific to each initiative.
Our team did alot of work in almost every region of Pakistan which is affected from any type of natural disaster
Our project managers and ground teams submit monthly financial reports along with comprehensive field reports on a quarterly basis.
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