The Great Wow

50 years ago, in 1972, hanging out on a makeshift roadside bench, two young fast friends and classmates saw and felt, with a heavy heart, society's misgivings. Allah had enriched their hearts and minds with the much-needed compassion. Both saw, with despair, the miseries of poor people and suffering men and women, a general disorder that wasn’t to be ignored. The dust and dirt filled the air, but both felt helpless.

They wanted to do something but did not know quite well what and how to do it, so they both wowed. They wowed one day to undo the miseries and sufferings they witnessed then. It was during the early seventies, soon after the completion of their tenth grade.

Thirty years later, in 2003, one had earned his renown as a Judge and Chief Justice at Sindh High Court, later a supreme court judge, and the other became a known Ophthalmologist. Just then, as if by a divine decree, a friend offered a sixteen hundred square feet, two-bedroom first-floor apartment as a kick-start 

And so, a charitable eye healthcare clinic was born. It started as a Welfare Association to manage Sheikh Aziz-ur-Rehman Memorial Eye Clinic. (2003 - 2015), at Bahadurabad, Karachi - Pakistan.

The administrative structure morphed into Vision Trust in 2009 and, in 2016, moved over to Jamshed Town, courtesy of K&N’s Foundation. And thus, Khairun’nisa Eye Hospital came into existence.

The well-equipped secondary to tertiary level eye healthcare facility where about 100+ patients are seen daily, along with about 15-20 surgeries. More than 80% of the patients are treated free of cost or on a subsided basis.  To date, 100,359 patients sought consultation, and more than 24,233 surgeries have been performed and counting.

Fifty years on, from the day both young boys wowed, by the grace of Allah, in the year 2022, we have grown into a company called Vision Healthcare Foundation, registered Under section 42 of the Company Act of 2017, with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan.