
St.Joseph's is an affiliated teaching hospital of Islamabad Medical and Dental College.
St. Joseph's is a 60 bedded charitable hospice whose aim is to provide free medical care facilities to the destitute, the sick, and the terminally ill, without regard to race or religion. a volunteer managing committee provides guidance on the financial and administrative management of the hospice. Islamabad Medical and Dental College has always been an enormous supporter of any organization working for the betterment of the suffering humanity. It consists of Medical, Surgical and Paediatric patients who need rehabilitation; most of the patients need medical attention for their chronic ailments.
Franciscan Nuns, Missionaries of Mary run the hospice. The fully trained staff is composed of 26 Pakistani nurses, aides, and volunteer doctors, ward helpers who are former village boys and girls whom the nuns have trained and now employ
Patients who can work are taught to do embroidery, knitting, tailoring and other handicrafts. Many of them do recover enough to return to their homes and are then able to earn a small living from their new found trade. All medical services are free of charge to resident patients. This is the practice regardless of costs involved; type or duration of treatments required.
St.Joseph's hospice provides services to its patients based upon need and not ability to pay. St. Joseph Hospice provide residential patients with medical, physical, occupations, vocational, orthopaedics (prosthesis).
St. Joseph's Hospice is a 60 bed charitable hospital attached as a teaching hospital to Islamabad Medical & Dental College (IMDC). It consists of Medical, Surgical and Paediatric patients who need rehabilitation; most of the patients need medical attention for their chronic ailments.