Fazila Lalani- Using Medical Experience to Help Those Most in Need

Many professionals find excellent ways in which they utilise their skills and education to help those in most in need. In the medical world, there are many opportunities for medical professionals to travel abroad to some of the most deprived places in desperate need of medical attention, and help certain charities and organizations give them aid. It can be a hugely rewarding experience, and one which can change the lives of others and those helping them. For Dr Fazila Lalani, being able to use her medical training and experience has been a great way for her to give something back to humanitarian causes, and cultivate her altruism.
 

Being able to help others and build networks in charity and medical communities can open up a world of opportunity for those with a strong desire to contribute to humanitarian causes. It can be a way to meet people and organizations, and find ways towards a fulfilling career using valuable skills and knowledge to help those most in need.
 

Fazila Lalani has had numerous opportunities to go abroad and help humanitarian cause. Last year she visited India three times to teach emergency medicine residents basic medical practices that could go on to save lives and cause comfort for patients. She also went to Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the world today, to start working on a rural medical clinic and help bring their practices up to an efficient level to save lives and treat illnesses.
 

Next year, Fazila Lalani plans to go to Tanzania for 6 months as a volunteer consultant at a hospital in Dar Es Salaam to improve their ER and hospital system, and get it up to modern standards for better treatments. She also does local volunteer work in her home-town, and is on a national team that helps mentoring for pre-health high school and college students. Fazila Lalani MD also set up local health fairs and is hosting a health professionals networking and career development meeting in April in Manhattan.
 

For Fazila Lalani, being able to help others and contribute to wider humanitarian causes such as developing medical centers in deprived regions, is truly rewarding work and helps imbue life with a sense of purpose. Most in medicine enter for the altruistic reasons that bonds the community, and being able to extent that altruism further afield is a great way to put ones skills and experience into practice.