Dr. Abdul Bari Khan while giving his presentation to the delegation of Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry said that the Indus Hospital is a state of the art tertiary care center accessible to the public free of charge. A team of local and expatriate professionals provides specialized medical care with an emphasis on innovation and research. The tertiary care facilities at the Hospital are complemented by community outreach programs focused on prevention and early detection of disease, encouraging community involvement and ownership.

He stated that general filter clinics are conducted daily in the CHC, where walk-in patients are assessed free of charge. The patient is then referred according to need to the concerned specialist clinic. Patients requiring urgent treatment are directly transferred to the Emergency Room, where investigations and management are initiated immediately. A 6-bed emergency room is equipped to handle all types of medical and surgical services in 24 hours. He further declared that the Community Outreach Program is being developed in collaboration with Partners in Health to implement Pakistan's first community-based MDR-TB Control Program.

The Community Outreach Program aims to provide volunteer-based health and social services to a catchment population of 2.4 millions around Indus Hospital through a network of community health workers. In a statement he alleged that every month at the Indus Hospital, more than: 10,000 patients seen in clinics17, 000 investigations, 700 inpatient admissions, 500 dialysis sessions and 500 surgeries in the Hospital, termed it a great achievement. While presenting about Zakat, he mentioned that it could be given to the Indus Hospital on a monthly or annual basis. Non-Zakat donations will be used for patients who do not meet the criteria for Zakat eligibility, but deserve all the same. Responding to a query he replied it could directly be sponsored a patient's treatment at the Indus Hospital.

A summary of the patient that you have helped will be sent to you once he/she is discharged. He was of the firm opinions that Indus Hospital has entered into a strategic partnership with IRD, a non-profit research and service organization committed to saving lives through improvements in global health. IRD seeks to create opportunities for scientists and social entrepreneurs that maximize the impact of health interventions in low-income communities.

Indus Hospital and IRD have established the joint Indus Hospital Research Center, IHRC for short, focused on 4 areas. Secondly, The Center for Community Development (CCD) implements programs to help improve health and increase economic opportunities for low-income households. CCD is collaborating with Partners in Health to design and implement the Community Outreach Program at the Indus Hospital.

He openly talked while mentioning Hospital's social services that The Indus Hospital DOTS-Plus Program is unique in that it does not draw the line at just providing patients with free medications but a comprehensive approach addresses the social and personal concerns of the patient, thereby increasing compliance. He more exemplified, counseling to all patients on a monthly basis, Treatment supporters, who monitor the patient's well being at home and directly observe the intake of medication on a daily, contact tracing and free monthly rations worth Rs. 2,500 to single patient.

He cleared about that The DOTS Program The Indus Hospital, in collaboration with the National Tuberculosis Program (NTP), has established a DOTS (Directly Observed Therapy Short-course) Program for the management of TB patients according to WHO guidelines. Free TB medications are provided to Indus Hospital by the NTP for all patients in the DOTS program. In his final words and discussing about the future of the establishment of 800-bedded hospital is in the pipeline where treatment will be free of charge. He said they'll make it a role model and similar models will be incorporated in every city of our country.