AKU’s academic health centres provide high-quality treatment backed by the latest knowledge and deliver an array of services unavailable elsewhere. Our highly trained staff provide everything from prenatal courses for expectant mothers to neurosurgery, child psychiatry to comprehensive cancer care, nutritional counselling to kidney transplantation. In addition to offering outstanding care to those in need, AKU’s hospitals actively work to prevent illness by educating their patients and the public.

At AKU, we believe that everyone should have access to quality care, regardless of where they live or their income. In Pakistan, one in 10 inpatients at the Aga Khan University Hospital earns less than Rs 300 ($2) per day. A pregnant woman saved from death after doctors elsewhere had given up hope; an infant girl who received emergency surgery to correct a life-threatening lung malformation; a young boy whose cancer was detected and successfully treated after his parents had exhausted their savings pursuing treatment at other hospitals – these are just a few instances in which AKU’s commitment to providing access to world-class care regardless of a patient’s ability to pay has made the difference between life and death.