With your continuous support, we will open Pakistan’s largest Shaukat Khanum Hospital, Karachi, in 2026. This will herald a new era of excellence in cancer treatment for the people of Karachi, Sindh, and Southern Balochistan.
Cancer treatment can be financially burdensome and logistically challenging, often requiring multiple trips over long distances. 75% of the cancer patients seen at Shaukat Khanum Hospitals, Lahore and Peshawar, are treated free of charge annually.
Located in DHA City, Karachi, this new hospital will be twice the size of SKMCH&RC, Lahore, with an area of over 1 million square feet and more than 400 beds. With its modern cancer treatment facilities and highly trained staff, the hospital will continue Shaukat Khanum Hospital’s legacy of providing exceptional care to all patients, regardless of their ability to pay.
SKMCH&RC, Karachi, will share the burden of more than 180,000 cancer patients and their families, demonstrating our collective commitment to helping those fighting the toughest battles of their lives. So donate as much as you can, regardless of the amount – no donation is too small.
YOU helped us build Shaukat Khanum Hospitals in Lahore and Peshawar, and it is YOU who can take Shaukat Khanum Hospital, Karachi, to the finish line because #ZimmaHamaraHai
You can contribute towards building SKMCH&RC, Karachi, by becoming a Founding Donor, creating a lasting legacy by dedicating rooms in memory of loved ones or by Sponsoring an Equipment.
Fitrana, also known as Zakat-ul-Fitr or Sadaqah-e-Fitr, is a mandatory charity given by Muslims at the end of Ramadan to purify their fasting and help those in need. Fitrana ensures that no one is left behind during the joyous occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr.
Fitrana must be given before the Eid-ul-Fitr prayer so the needy can benefit during Eid celebrations. The last date of Fitrana 2025 depends on the sighting of the moon in your region.
The amount of Fitrana or Fitrana calculation is based on a “saa” (traditional unit of measurement) of certain food items. Depending on financial capacity, minimum benchmark for Fitrana is set using these options, but individuals are encouraged to pay more, in accordance with their means and desire.
Yes! You can conveniently donate your Fitrana to Shaukat Khanum Hospitals online and help cancer patients in need.
In Urdu, Fitrana (فطرانہ) means a charitable donation that is obligatory for every Muslim at the end of Ramadan. It is given to the less fortunate so they can also celebrate Eid. The purpose of Fitrana is to purify one’s fast and help those in need, ensuring that no one is left behind during the joyous occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr.
Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centres
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to