Community-built Pakistan Medical Centre opens in Dubai

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Long-awaited Pakistan Medical Centre (PMC), the first non-for profit community built healthcare facility, has opened its doors to patients in Dubai.  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  #medicalcentre #Pakistan #health

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00:00Pakistan Association Dubai is a community organization, volunteer-run organization supported

00:10by the community. It has launched recently a project, a Pakistan Center, based on the

00:18concept of Own a Brick. It is part of a bigger project which includes the Pakistan Auditorium

00:25sports complex and altogether this would form the world's largest community center

00:31for overseas Pakistanis. The new Pakistan Center building includes the Pakistan Medical

00:36Center which is the first not-for-profit healthcare for all medical facility and it's open to

00:42all nationalities. Pakistan Medical Center has been made with a view to support people

00:47and help those who are unable to get quality care. Our vision has been to bring a positive

00:53change in healthcare by providing quality care to all those who cannot access that.

00:59So on that, we have already planned our campaigns for the patients where they can get all the

01:05services on a very subsidized rate. The concept of the Pakistan Medical Center was based on

01:13our experience for the last 10 years of providing healthcare, free medical camps to all segments

01:18of the community and to other nationalities. The model is designed in such a way that we

01:23will be collaborating with different centers in Dubai in order to get their support in

01:28managing a patient where the scope of services of Pakistan Medical Center is not there. In

01:33a way, this is a very unique concept which has been started for the first time and it

01:38has been supported by the community throughout with the concept of Own a Brick, we all know,

01:43and that probably will continue because a lot of patients will be looking for the support

01:48of the community when they are paid by the amount from Zakat and welfare. So these are

01:55the areas where we will be looking for community's continuous support. The new building includes

02:00a health and fitness center which is named after Shahid Afridi Foundation. It also has

02:06areas which are focusing on women empowerment. There is an area called Hunarkada. Then we

02:14have an area which serves the young entrepreneurs called Hub 47. We have an art corner which

02:21is going to be providing space for young artists.

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