About us

Two organizations, one promise: quality care for those who can least afford it.

Sina Primary Health USA’s goal is to improve primary healthcare in Pakistan for the country’s most vulnerable. We raise funds and awareness in America. Our implementing partner, SINA HealthSystems Foundation in Pakistan, runs one of the most respected primary-care networks on the ground in Karachi. Over 90% of patients are women and children.

SINA PRIMARY HEALTH USA
About · Our Partner

It began with one clinic in Baldia Town.

In 1998, Dr. Asif Ali Imam — a Dow Medical College graduate who spent two decades practicing in the United States — returned to Karachi and opened a small clinic in Baldia Town, one of the city’s largest informal settlements. The idea was simple and radical: bring qualified family physicians, real diagnostics, and honest medicine to families the health system had written off.

Today that one clinic is a network of 40, named for Ibn Sina — the physician-philosopher whose thousand-year-old vision of holistic healing the mission carries forward. SINA now serves areas that are home to nearly half of Karachi’s population, treating over 1.2 million patients a year.

  • Vision: quality primary healthcare for the underserved — authentic, scalable, replicable, affordable, accessible.
  • Values: Service · Integrity · Nurture · Altruism — it spells SINA.
A SINA clinic building in Karachi with its red sign
About

Our Implementing Partner — SINA HealthSystems Pakistan’s Work

Every SINA clinic is a full primary-care home, not a dispensary. Donors fund the whole circle of care:

Doctor-led care

Consultations with qualified family physicians, chronic disease management, and treatment of infectious and non-infectious illness.

Diagnostics & medicines

On-site labs (2M tests performed), ultrasound, and free or subsidized medicines through clinic pharmacy banks.

Mothers & children

Antenatal and postnatal care, reproductive health, child nutrition programs, and 100,000 childhood immunizations a year.

Mental health

Screening at every visit and dedicated counselors — rare anywhere in primary care, rarer still in low-income Karachi.

Referral network

A managed “circle of care” moves complex cases to partner hospitals — Indus Hospital, Aga Khan University — and back for follow-up.

Research & training

An in-house research department publishing in BMJ journals, plus continuous physician training, BLS programs, and mentoring.

A SINA family physician at her clinic desk
Why SINA is different

Charity care, run with hospital discipline.

  • Fully digital. A paperless EMR across all 40 clinics: real-time dashboards, ICD-11 coding, clinical protocols, and zero patients lost to follow-up.
  • Certified. ISO 9001 quality management, Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy certification, and Shariah-compliant Zakat handling.
  • Trusted company. Partners and supporters include WHO programs, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Indus Hospital, Aga Khan University, and Pakistan’s leading corporate foundations.
  • Measured. Costs are published per patient, per program, per clinic — the same numbers we show you on our Donate page.
Our Work

Sina Primary Health — built for accountable giving.

Incorporated in California and recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) public charity, Sina Primary Health exists so American donors can support this work simply, tax-efficiently, and with full U.S.-law compliance. Our board members serve as volunteers.

Dr. Farah Imam

President

Dr. Hisham Salahuddin

Dr. Hisham Salahuddin

Director

Interventional neurologist trained across vascular neurology, neurocritical care, and neurointervention. Director of the Comprehensive Stroke Center at Antelope Valley Hospital and of the TCD Imaging Program at Cottage Hospital, he brings frontline stroke and critical-care expertise to Sina Primary Health’s mission. He co-founded Welfare AID at Ziauddin University in 2007 — a student-run nonprofit still active today — and the Pakistan Stroke Initiative, a 501(c)(3) organization, in 2022.

Dr. Shams

Director

Mr. Jawwad Khatib

Director

Dr. Kulsum Ahmed

Dr. Kulsum Ahmed

Director

Senior advisor on international development, climate, and environmental sustainability with over 34 years of experience in policy analysis and development solutions. In 24 years at the World Bank she served as a global practice manager, led operational teams across Latin America, Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa, and in 2002 founded the Bank’s first practice linking environmental risk to health outcomes. She studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge and holds a Ph.D. from Imperial College London.

Our collaborating partner, SINA, is governed by its own Board of Trustees and professional leadership in Karachi, led by Chairman Dr. Asif Ali Imam with CEO Mohsin Safdar, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sabeen Shah, and Chief Strategy Officer Nosheen Faisal.