Executive Officers
- Tahir Zafar, President
- Dr. Zahid Baig, Vice President
- Dr. Noshin Ahmed, Treasurer/Secretary
About Al-Shifa
Al-Shifa Foundation of North America (AFNA) is a non-profit 501( C) (3) organization registered in the United States. Its purpose is to support Al-Shifa Trust eye hospitals and their projects in Pakistan and the surrounding region to fight acute eye diseases and blindness.
Through the generous support of many individuals and organizations, Al-Shifa has managed to build three high quality eye hospitals in Rawalpindi (Punjab), Sukkur (Sindh) and Kohat (NWFP) with the most modern facilities and equipment where approximately 75% of the patients are treated free of cost. Al-Shifa is building two new eye hospitals in 2009 in Muzaffarabad (Azad Kashmir) and Quetta (Baluchistan). Al-Shifa also provides rural outreach services to the needy and so far set-up over 2500 screening and surgical camps in remote areas.
Al-Shifa has achieved the awards of excellence and is a World Health Organization (WHO) collaborating center for East Mediterranean Region since 1994. In the field of prevention of blindness, Al-Shifa has partnerships with many international NGOs including WHO, ORBIS International-USA, Lions Club International-USA, Operation Eye Sight Universal-Canada, Sight Savers International-UK and Government of Japan.
Board of Directors
- Tahir Zafar, Chairman
- Afzal Amanat, New York
- Dr. Zahid Baig, New Jersey
- Dr. Noshin Ahmed, New Jersey
- Dr. Abid Nisar, St.Louis
- Abdul Wadood, St.Louis
- Shaheen Pervaiz, Chicago
- Terry Shaikh, Houston
- Lt.General ( Retd) Jahandad Khan, Islamabad
Advisory Board
- Tahir Zafar, Chairman
- Dr. Nawaz Arain, New York
- Dr. Hafizur Rehman, New York
- Dr. Abdul Wadood Mughal, New Jersey
- Dr. Riaz Iqbal, New Jersey
- Dr. Pervaiz Malik, New Jersey
- Dr. Ishaq Chisti, St. Louis
- Dr. Ghazala Hayat, St.Louis
- Dr. Javed Bangash, Chicago
- Dr. Pervaiz Rasool, Chicago
- Ghulam Bombaywala, Houston
- Dr. Mansoor Shah, Los Angeles