Aga Khan Health Services

Aga Khan Health Services
Company typenon-profit
IndustryHealthcare
Founded1924[1]
Headquarters
Gouvieux[2]
,
France
Area served
East Asia, Central Asia, East Africa South Asia
Productshealth centres, dispensaries, hospitals, diagnostic centres, and community health outlets
ParentAga Khan Development Network
Websitewww.akdn.org/our-agencies/aga-khan-health-services

The Aga Khan Health Services is an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) that supports activities in the health field, and manages more than 200 health facilities, including a network of Aga Khan Hospitals.[3]

It works closely with the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) and the Aga Khan University (AKU) on planning, training, and resource development, and with the Aga Khan Education Services (AKES) and the Aga Khan Planning and Building Services (AKPBS) on the integration of health issues into specific projects.

With community health programmes in Central and South Asia, as well as East Africa, AKHS is one of the most comprehensive private not-for-profit health care systems in the developing world.[4][5] It provides curative health care through 237 health centres, dispensaries, hospitals, diagnostic centres and community health outlets to one million beneficiaries and handles 1.2 million patient visits annually.[6]

Building on the Ismaili Community's health care efforts in the first half of the 20th century, AKHS now provides primary health care and curative care in Afghanistan, India, Kenya, Pakistan, and Tanzania, and provides technical assistance to government in health service delivery in Kenya, Syria and Tajikistan.[4]

  1. ^ "Aga Khan Health Services, About Us". Aga Khan Hospitals. Retrieved November 7, 2020.
  2. ^ "AKHS". Development Aid. Retrieved November 7, 2020.
  3. ^ Momina Muzammil (August 25, 2020). "Health system". Dawn (newspaper). Retrieved September 12, 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Health centre opened for Afghan refugees". Dawn (newspaper). August 14, 2003. Retrieved September 12, 2020.
  5. ^ "Aga Khan Health Services". Aga Khan Development Network website. December 7, 2000. Archived from the original on November 11, 2006. Retrieved September 12, 2020.
  6. ^ "Aga Khan Foundation Annual Report 2005" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 10, 2006. Retrieved September 12, 2020.