Our Dream
To reduce mental health stigma & be the leader for the mental well-being of the Pakistani community.
Our Promise
To create awareness & provide patient-centered care, with excellence in quality & customer care.
Our Commitment
- Quality – will drive success
- Integrity – in everything we do.
- Compassion – Treat patient as our family member
- Innovation – Efficient models of care & service delivery
- Affordable – Remain relevant for the masses
The Mental Health Problems of Pakistan
4 out of 5 patients suffer in silence
Lack of awareness as:
- Symptoms are believed to be signs of poor faith.
- Depression is confused with being lazy and anxiety with being fussy, anger, etc.
- Certain conditions are considered as “Asaib” “Saya” i.e. extra terrestrial.
Stigma of “what will people say”
- A women risks disapproval of her father, husband, in-laws, or if unmarried minimizes the chance of getting married.
- A man will be ridiculed (“Gone Mad | Pagal ho gaya”) by friends & family and frowned upon at work place, or risks opportunity of employment.
The (SehatYab) Solution
AWARENESS
- Information about illnesses, treatments, tips and techniques on social media.
- Innovative digital products such as self assessments, workbooks to engage broader audiences.
- Website blogs, YouTube channel, live video sessions, webinars, are provided free of cost.
TREATMENT
- Virtual clinics cuts through societal stigma & taboos and patient-centric care at their safe places.
- Accessible service delivery for clinicians and patients alike thus a win-win.
- Subscription models for continuity of care through text based consultations.
Virtual interaction with persons with mental disorders is one of the best-evidenced interventions effective in changing people’s knowledge, attitudes and behavior towards mental health.
(World Health Organization. 2019)
Meet the Founders
Nadeem Nazir
Founder & CEO
A senior business executive with experience in the fields of Large scale infrastructure and Healthcare.
- Managed hospital networks including leading a major healthcare turnaround in Kuwait resulting in a sustainable 26% annualized growth. Achieved JCIA & ACI accreditations.
- Developed hospital projects on psychiatric/psychological care in middle east through collaborations with hospitals from Jordan / Egypt.
- He has worked at C level positions and has held Board seats in various listed companies in the Middle East & Pakistan.
He is a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Management Accountant from USA and a certified director from PICG.
Farrukh Sohail
Co-Founder
Mr. Farrukh Sohail brings over 20 years of experience in strategy, investment management and large scale transformations in the Middle East, US and Pakistan.
- Recently, he advised Kuwait Oil Company in formulating the strategy and operating model of its $1.5 billion R&D Center in Kuwait.
- Earlier, while working for a private equity firm, Mr. Sohail advised on investments in manufacturing, infrastructure and energy sectors across Asia.
Mr. Sohail holds Master of Science in Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from the University of Iowa.
Yaqub Ahsan
Co-Founder
Yaqub Ahsan is a technology enthusiast. His areas of interest are knowledge based venture creation and commercialization of technology. /em>
- Over the past 20 years, he has held leadership positions with various multi-national organizations in Pakistan, the Middle East and North America and has been involved in multiple entrepreneurial and intra-preneurial initiatives.
- Yaqub has a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan and a Masters in Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology from the University of Waterloo in Canada.