Our Health Missions Include:

Medicine

One of main priorities is to provide medical care to those who lack the means to pay. Today, we have built comprehensive relationships with hospitals, mobile units, doctors, medical professionals and volunteers offering free healthcare. We provide a human and holistic approach that values the wellbeing of patients, family, and medical team equally.

Child health

​Children represent the future, and ensuring their healthy growth and development ought to be a prime concern of all societies. Newborns are particularly vulnerable and children are vulnerable to malnutrition and infectious diseases, many of which can be effectively prevented or treated.

Renal failure

We are working with people suffering from renal failure including a hospital in one of the poorest areas in Cairo. As inflation soars in Egypt and the demand is increasing, the dialysis unit is struggling to meet the needs of many. Your help to keep their renal failure patients alive is much needed today. International Humanitarian Care rules is to bring transparency to financial relationships donors and between volunteer’s physicians, teaching hospitals, and the. This is pertinent to IHC because we receive donations from manufacturers, Companies, worldwide donors, organization who are required to pass reporting obligations on to the third party charitable.

Cancer Management

​International Humanitarian Care mission to reduce the significant disability, suffering and deaths caused by cancer worldwide, effective and affordable programs in early diagnosis, screening, treatment, and palliative care are needed.

International Humanitarian Care mission ensure that treatment options may include surgery, medicines and/or radiotherapy; treatment planning should be guided by tumor type, stage and available resources and informed by the preference of the patient.

International Humanitarian Care mission also make sure that we work with palliative care, which focuses on improving the quality of life of patients and their families, is an essential components of cancer care. Accelerated action is needed to improve cancer care, achieve global targets to reduce deaths from cancer and provide health care for all consistent with universal health coverage.

What is leprosy?

Leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae. The disease mainly affects the skin, the peripheral nerves, mucosal surfaces of the upper respiratory tract and the eyes. Leprosy is known to occur at all ages ranging from early infancy to very old age. Leprosy is curable and early treatment averts most disabilities.

Transmission

International Humanitarian Care mission work and ensure to preventing the mechanism of transmission of leprosy which is not known until today. At least until recently, the most widely held belief was that the disease was transmitted by contact between cases of leprosy and healthy persons. More recently the possibility of transmission by the respiratory route is gaining ground. There are also other possibilities such as transmission through insects which cannot be completely ruled out.