Welcome to MALC
MALC is working for Leprosy elimination, TB and
Blindness control and Community Development
for the last 54 years. It is a non profit, non sectarian
organization registered under the Societies Act.
A well-knitted network of 157 control centres nationwide mostly in remote areas is functioning in close collaboration with provincial governments and providing services to the patients and communities free of charge. By the grace of Allah SWT and efforts of the team, Leprosy was controlled in 1996. After controlling Leprosy we are now making efforts for its elimination. MALC is also in the front to provide relief and rehabilitation to the poor and needy people affected by natural and man-made calamities and participates actively in the relief, reconstruction and rehabilitation activities in the earthquake and in various floods and draughts relief projects in the country.
CEO's Message
Dear Well-wishers….
The year will be remembered for its important achievements – The integration of Leprosy in general health finally caught momentum, paving way to gaining Government’s ownership of the Leprosy Elimination Programme. As a result, 56 out of 157 Leprosy Control Centres have been integrated into the existing structure of general health services, while the District Resource Teams are being formed to monitor integrated centres to ensure continuation of effective Leprosy services through integrated and non-integrated centres alike.
Staying close to our targets we remained focused on doing what we do best – helping poor of the poorest un-served communities, and enhancing and expanding our activities in several areas that show potential for serving the most neglected communities while ensuring sustainability of our Triple Merger Programme. Hence, from Leprosy to Community Development – the journey is on.
Matter of Concern...
A Life that could have been saved…
While writing about Ishaq, are we trying to cash on his tragic death to get funds from our supporters, or trying to show the other side of the world that exists outside city life?
Sarona may be a godforsaken place for a city dweller, but for the inhabitants it is their paradise. With no basic facilities of health and utilities, the thought of what they are deprived of is beyond their imagination. Ishaq a Multi-drug Resistant TB case was picked up by our team starting community development work in a grossly underserved area in Khuzdar district of Balochistan. The only son of his parents in a place where infant mortality is extremely high faced a 50-50 chance of survival. The team headed by Dr. Ruth Pfau who were on a tour of Sarona put him in their vehicle, risking their own lives of contracting drug resistant TB brought him to Karachi, where he died during treatment at Ojha Institute.
Ishaq is gone but there are hundreds of Ishaqs who are surviving on the threshold of human miseries in areas that do not appear on the maps of Pakistan. These communities do not ask for much, what they need is their basic right for survival as normal human beings. The death of Ishaq has knocked at the door of our conscience; what are we here for? How can we contribute to ensure that tomorrow’s Ishaq does not meet the same fate? ...
