Specialized Hospitals

Year-round eye care that doesn’t pack up and leave.

32 hospitals across 6 countries turn months-long waits into same-day care, and one surgery into lifelong vision.

A patient after eye surgery at a permanent hospital

What is the difference

A hospital is a promise. A camp is a visit.

Mobile clinics reach remote communities for a few days at a time. Permanent specialized hospitals stay. They offer year-round consultations, advanced surgeries, post-operative recovery, and follow-up care from skilled local teams.

1989Service since
32Permanent hospitals
6Countries
30.34M+Outpatient visits
2.22M+Surgeries performed

30.34M+

Patient visits across 32 hospitals. Every day a clinic is open somewhere.

Our footprint

32 hospitals. 6 countries. One mission.

From the deserts of Sudan to the river deltas of Bangladesh, our hospitals serve where eye care is hardest to reach.

Sudan

10Hospitals
1.18M+Surgeries

Our largest network — flagship Makkah Eye Complex in Khartoum, operating since 1995.

View Hospitals in Sudan

Pakistan

9Hospitals
357.2K+Surgeries

Where it began — Al-Ibrahim, Karachi opened in 1990. Newest addition: Naseerabad, 2025.

View Hospitals in Pakistan

Yemen

4Hospitals
222.4K+Surgeries

Care continuing through conflict — Mukalla, Aden, Marib and Jibla.

View Hospitals in Yemen
Hussein Ahmed before and after his eye surgery: a cloudy eye before, and smiling with his sight back after

One patient, one hospital

Hussein is back at his desk, learning alongside his friends.

A sudden injury took the sight in one eye, and his family could not afford treatment. After a successful surgery, he returned to school.

Hussein Ahmed Patient | Bangladesh

Your impact

Build the future of sight. Three ways to give.

Equip a Surgery

From $100

Help us eliminate the waiting list for cataract surgeries at the hospitals.

Donate $100

Endow a Hospital (Waqf)

From $5,000

An ongoing endowment that keeps generating reward, long after the gift is made. Build, renovate, or equip a hospital that will serve thousands every year.

Learn About Waqf

Fund a Hospital Ward

$1,000 to $10,000

Sustain ongoing care, staff salaries, medications, daily operations. A hospital running year-round needs partners year-round.

Choose Your Amount

Zakat eligible

Your Zakat can build a hospital that lasts a lifetime.

Endowing or sustaining a hospital that restores sight to the poor is among the highest-impact ways to fulfil the obligation.

Your gift, accountable in every direction

Your gift, accountable in every direction.

AL BASAR USA is a Texas-registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit (Federal Tax ID: 92-1804033). Donations are tax-deductible and Zakat-eligible.

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GreatNonprofitsTop-Rated Nonprofit
97%To Field Operations97% Direct program ratio
Zakat EligibleEndorsed by leading scholars

Join us

Vision is a gift. Pass it on.

Whether you give once, give monthly, or give your time, you help us keep a hospital open.

Every donation is Zakat-eligible and tax-deductible. AL BASAR USA — a vision for all.