Mission, Vision & Goals
Mission
The organization aims at providing free and quality medical services to the needy and poor, especially women and children. It endeavors to establish a close and trusting relationship with its patients and their families so that “No woman or child dies due to preventable causes in Pakistan.”
OBJECTIVES
Focusing on matters relating to Maternity and Child Welfare (MCH), the main objectives of MCWAP are to:
- Initiate and demonstrate the MCH services to the community by opening MCH Centers, where needed.
- Provide health care, to mothers, children and the family.
- Provide training in the field of MCH by arranging short courses in Mother and Child Care. TBAs & Healthcare workers are trained.
- Provide family planning services through MCH Centres.
- Provide guidance for promoting School Health Services.
- Work for the empowerment of women by improving their education and living standards.
- Help in prevention of diseases like Hepatitis and diabetes.
- Create awareness about quality of water and sanitation.
- Promote behavior change and capacity building in different health areas, like personal hygiene, environmental sanitation, family planning and spacing of children, by arranging seminars and health camps.
- Serve as a consultative agency in the field of Maternal and Child Welfare.
- Support conducting and disseminating the findings of functional-cum-action research in the field of Maternal and Child Health, Family Health, Family Welfare and Family Planning.
Goals
Ultimate goals of the organization are to:
- Decrease Infant Mortality Rate (IMR).
- Decrease Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR).
- Decrease Crude Birth Rate (CBR).
- Decrease Crude Death Rate (CDR).
- Increase Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR).
- Decrease Population Growth Rate (PGR).
- Increase Immunization Prevalence Rate.
- Promote Health and Hygiene Awareness in School Children.
- Promote Women Health and Empowerment.