The poor fund

LAMB’s aim is to serve the poor and under-privileged, especially women and children. It has never turned a poor patient away.  In an area where the wage for a day labourer is about £1.50 a day, many do not seek health care until is too late, because they are afraid of the cost.

2025 Achievements: The Poor Fund enables LAMB to subsidise the treatment and care of the poorest patients following assessment of need by the hospital social work team. Thanks to our generous supporters we were able to send £115,000 to LAMB for the Poor Fund. Due to a good exchange rate, this met 79% of Poor Fund expenditure.

LAMB Health was able subsidise the care for 3,227 inpatients (38% of total) at an average of £34 per patient, and 4,741 outpatients (5% of total) at an average of £3. This provided better health outcomes for 7,968 people, primarily poor women and children. Extremely poor pregnant women received a ‘pass card’ enabling them to have either completely free treatment (green card) or greatly reduced treatment (red card). This has been a lifeline for the 253 patients who received these cards in 2025.