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Medical Missions
IMI provides global opportunities for you to provide medical services to countless individuals in need. IMI's medical missions include international delegations based on specific specialties (to provide medical services & training) as well as annual medical missions to serve large communities. IMI's main annual medical missions are the IMI Hajj Medical Mission and the IMI Annual Arbaeen Medical Mission.
IMI's Hajj Medical Mission
In 2003, IMI doctors recognized the growing medical needs of the more than three million Muslims performing Hajj annually and decided to take on the responsibility of providing complete medical facilities to care for the more than 750,000 among them that seeks medical attention. This effort has gradually converted into a complete medical mission, serving more than 20,000 pilgrims each year.
IMI HMM activities, managed through IMI Pakistan, are divided into pre-Hajj Activities and Post and During Hajj Activities.
IMI's Annual Arbaeen Medical Mission
Since 2010, IMI has been coordinating medical missions to Iraq for Arbaeen. IMI’s plans at Arbaeen this year include medical services in Karbala through 2 medical camps, one at the Haram of Imam Hussain (A.S.) and the other in the Haram of Hazrat Abbas (A.S.). At each of these locations, teams will operate in groups by shifts. Each camp will also have separate care areas for men and women.
IMI is also planning to provide additional medical services through multiple hospitals again (Al Safeer Hospital, Maisam-e-Tammar Hospital & Syedus Shoda Hospital) where general practitioners & doctors with specialties will provide some clinical and surgical care.
A similar set up will be coordinated for the IMI Medical Camp in Najaf as well where IMI will once again run a 4-day medical camp inside the Haram of Imam Ali (A.S.) during the Shahadat of Prophet Muhammad and Imam Ali Reza (A.S.).
IMI's 9th Annual Arbaeen Medical Mission Applications are now open.
Tentative dates you will be required to be in Iraq (pending ongoing assessment of crisis, security and logistics) are:
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Karbala Camps only: October 31 – November 13, 2017
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Karbala & Najaf Camps: October 31 - November 19, 2017
Deadline: July 3rd
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IMI Delegations to Iraq: Join the Roster today!
Since 2009, IMI has been coordinating international medical delegations to Iraq. IMI is working with local partners to develop quarterly, specialty based delegations of licensed physicians and health professionals who will provide free, charity care through public hospitals, clinics and university/teaching hospitals. Delegates must commit to serve for 2 weeks. If you are interested, please email a copy of your CV and this completed form: IMI Iraq Roster Application to SakinaRizviIMI@gmail.com
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IMI provides medical services annually through the following missions
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IMI Hajj Medical Mission
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IMI Annual Arbaeen Medical Mission
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Testimonials
I am back home, safe and warm. This is just to thank you and everybody on the mission for having made my first Arbaeen Mission the best visit of my life.
Memories of the trip are playing back constantly. I have never experienced such inner peace and purity as I did over those 17 days. I now understand what Qasim Bhai meant when he talked about a spiritual journey prior to the trip. It is a feeling that I hope to preserve constantly. I felt serene on my first full day at work today despite certain challenges with equipment in my operating list.
I have never felt so privileged ever in my life. To have unhindered access to the Harams, being their guest and to have received such affection from the zawwar and locals was such an honour. Despite the crush I managed the tawafs and was able to pray in the Harams each time I wished. There were a series of little things that happened to me during the trip that felt like small miracles to me, including getting the visa. Meeting Ayatullah Sistani where he spent 20 minutes with us was a feeling that no words could describe.
I made good friends, hopefully for life. As a team we all pulled together equally and got on extremely well without any tensions that come from seeing 15,000 patients in 9 days without much local knowledge of resources and language barriers, against a 24/7 schedule . If any of the team plan to come to the UK my home awaits them.
I would like to thank IMI for according me such privilege. Qasim Bhai and Sakina, thank you so much for excellent leadership and making this trip smooth through your hard work months before and through the trip. I am sure that you both ironed out issues that we would not have been even aware of. Sleeping indoors on a bed in warmth was 5 star luxury compared to what the majority of the zaireen went through, that would not be possible without your efforts. I pray for all the team especially both of you and your families for health and happiness inshallah.
Finally, for the information of my fellow team members, as I was comfortably asleep in an exit row seat on the Najaf-Istanbul leg, a call went out for a doctor, that I answered. I was presented with a well looking Iraqi man going to Sweden who pressed his head with an anguished look and then put his hand to his throat clearing it simultaneously. After examining him. I prescribed him what was available in the first aid box- paracetamol and a Paracetamol/chlorphenaramine combination! Luckily no ampoules were requested. Thanks Qasim Bhai for the quick fire "on the job" tutoring!
Salaams and best wishes
Ali Mehdi (UK)