Recognize endometriosis in Pakistan. Train our doctors. Give women the care they deserve.
Recognize endometriosis in Pakistan. Train our doctors. Give women the care they deserve.
The Issue
For too many of us, it began in cold waiting rooms with pain as our only companion. We were told, again and again, that our suffering was just part of being a woman. No one told us it had a name. No one told us it was endometriosis.
We are the She Deserves Care community: women across Pakistan living with endometriosis and adenomyosis, and everyone who stands with us. Between us we have waited years to be believed. We have sat across from doctors who were never taught what this disease was, and walked out still undiagnosed, still in pain. We have been called lazy, dramatic, difficult. Some of us have been abandoned or taunted for infertility. All of us have been made to feel that our agony was a character flaw.
Endometriosis affects roughly one in ten women. Yet studies show it takes an average of seven to ten years for a woman to be diagnosed. In Pakistan, the wait is often longer, because the system around us was never built to see us. This is not a private misfortune. It is a national health failure affecting millions.
It does not have to stay this way. We are calling on the Pakistan Ministry of Health and Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz to act on four fronts.
Recognition. Endometriosis and adenomyosis must be formally recognized as serious public health conditions, not dismissed as ordinary period pain. Recognition is what unlocks funding, data, and policy.
Education. Endometriosis must be a required part of the MBBS curriculum, so every doctor qualifies knowing how to spot it, alongside ongoing training for practising gynaecologists in modern diagnosis and excision surgery.
Access. Affordable specialist care must exist within the public health system, so no woman is forced abroad or left untreated because of what she can afford.
Awareness. Public health campaigns to break the silence and stigma, so women stop being told their pain is imagined, lazy, or their own fault.
We are not asking for pity. We are asking to be seen, believed, and cared for in the country we call home. Whether you live with this disease yourself or simply refuse to accept a Pakistan where women are left to suffer in silence, add your name.
She deserves care. We all do.
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The Issue
For too many of us, it began in cold waiting rooms with pain as our only companion. We were told, again and again, that our suffering was just part of being a woman. No one told us it had a name. No one told us it was endometriosis.
We are the She Deserves Care community: women across Pakistan living with endometriosis and adenomyosis, and everyone who stands with us. Between us we have waited years to be believed. We have sat across from doctors who were never taught what this disease was, and walked out still undiagnosed, still in pain. We have been called lazy, dramatic, difficult. Some of us have been abandoned or taunted for infertility. All of us have been made to feel that our agony was a character flaw.
Endometriosis affects roughly one in ten women. Yet studies show it takes an average of seven to ten years for a woman to be diagnosed. In Pakistan, the wait is often longer, because the system around us was never built to see us. This is not a private misfortune. It is a national health failure affecting millions.
It does not have to stay this way. We are calling on the Pakistan Ministry of Health and Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz to act on four fronts.
Recognition. Endometriosis and adenomyosis must be formally recognized as serious public health conditions, not dismissed as ordinary period pain. Recognition is what unlocks funding, data, and policy.
Education. Endometriosis must be a required part of the MBBS curriculum, so every doctor qualifies knowing how to spot it, alongside ongoing training for practising gynaecologists in modern diagnosis and excision surgery.
Access. Affordable specialist care must exist within the public health system, so no woman is forced abroad or left untreated because of what she can afford.
Awareness. Public health campaigns to break the silence and stigma, so women stop being told their pain is imagined, lazy, or their own fault.
We are not asking for pity. We are asking to be seen, believed, and cared for in the country we call home. Whether you live with this disease yourself or simply refuse to accept a Pakistan where women are left to suffer in silence, add your name.
She deserves care. We all do.
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Petition created on 27 July 2026