Our Impact Numbers
75%
The Zakat you give, provides free treatment to 75% of our patients each year.
£40m
Is how much we spent, in 2022, on providing free cancer care at our hospitals, for needy patients.
89,676
Was the number of chemotherapy sessions we provided last year, at an average cost of £1,800 per session.
14,952
New patients were admitted across our hospitals in 2022 alone. This is in addition to the people already in our care.
Build Karachi Hospital
We’re racing to complete Shaukat Khanum Hospital Karachi by December 2023. Can you help us bring free cancer care to the Sindh Province?
Sponsor a Patient
With your Zakat, a needy patient facing cancer can receive the best care available in Pakistan, regardless of their ability to pay.
Give Your Zakat
Zakat is the life force of our life-saving work. It’s how we’ve been able to provide free cancer care to the poor for over 28 years. Give yours today.
Cancer Care at Shaukat Khanum Hospitals

Find out why ICU care demands a specialised kind of nursing
ICU Nurse, Asif: “Here, we tell patients whatever the reality of their case is. While being a critical care patient does not always mean the worst, we also never give fake hope.”

Find out why Play Therapy is vital to cancer care
Play Therapist, Bushra: “The basic idea of play therapy is to keep children psychologically stable as they go through prolonged cancer treatment.”
Urgent Appeals
Feed a Cancer Patient

Feed a Cancer Patient
Your support can help provide tests, treatment, medicine, and daily care to patients who otherwise could not afford life-saving cancer care.
Build Shaukat Khanum Karachi

Build Shaukat Khanum Karachi
Help us complete the Karachi hospital so more families in Sindh can access world-class cancer treatment regardless of what they can pay.
Support Shaukat Khanum Lahore

Support Shaukat Khanum Lahore
In Lahore, we need your help to expand our capacity. The rising incidence of cancer around the world is also affecting Pakistan's poorest. Can you help us meet the demand so that no patient gets turned away from Shaukat Khanum Hospital?
Latest News
Support Imran Khan Cancer Appeal
Fighting cancer costs. In a country where 65 million people live below the poverty line, most cancer patients in Pakistan neither have the means nor the support system to give them a fighting chance. Can you help?









