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The Baqais( Dr.Fareed Uddin
Baqai and Dr.Zahida Baqai)
both medical practitioners
and surgeons by profession,
after completing their
medical education in
Pakistan and Great Britain,
started practicing the art
of healing in an
underdeveloped country and
in a fast growing city of
Karachi, the then capital of
Pakistan. The enormity and
complexity of health care
problems and the paucity of
proper infrastructures for
health care delivery systems
motivated them to develop a
comprehensive concept of
community development on the
basis of self reliance and
without depending upon the
public sector financing. The
concept started unfolding
itself in concrete actions
when the Baqai Foundation
acquired a large piece of
land on Super Highway just
at the outskirts of Karachi
and established the first
ever rural Medical Centre
supported by secondary and
tertiary health care
facilities in 1976.
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