Shade Installment

Civil Hospital, Karachi (CHK) receives an influx of patients and their families from all over Sindh and Balochistan. While the patients receive treatments, their family members/attendants have nowhere to go, and henceforth spend their days and nights on footpaths and the floor within or close to Civil Hospital. Our main goal is to create a waiting area with proper seating arrangements.

We started by installing a shade to protect from Karachi’s heat. This project started early in February 2019. A shade was installed outside the Out Patient Department of CHK, where dozens of people would otherwise stand in lines every day, under Karachi’s scorching sun, to obtain their receipts.

Later, in June 2020, another shade was installed outside Cardiac OPD, as a preventive measure against Heatstroke.