PTCL Group and Oladoc have made postpartum mental health consultations available through the UPTCL app at no cost and with no barriers.

For years, the conversation around postpartum depression in Pakistan has circled the same unavoidable problem: even when awareness exists, access does not. Mothers who know something is wrong cannot always get to the help they need. The nearest psychiatrist is hours away. The cost of a private consultation is out of reach. The stigma of walking into a clinic feels impossible to face.

Today, PTCL Group and Oladoc are removing those barriers.

What Is Available, and How to Access It

As part of its Mother’s Day campaign, PTCL Group has partnered with Oladoc, one of Pakistan’s leading digital health platforms, to offer free mental health consultations with certified psychiatrists through the UPTCL app.

The offering is straightforward. Download the UPTCL app. Book a consultation. Speak with a qualified professional from wherever you are, your home, your neighbourhood, your village. No referral required. No waiting lists. No cost.

This is not a limited pilot for a handful of users in major cities. PTCL’s network reaches across Pakistan, and so does this.


Download the UPTCL app and book your free mental health consultation today.

Who This Is For

This is for the new mother who has been telling herself she is just tired when she knows it is something heavier than tiredness.

It is for the mother in a smaller city who has wanted to speak to someone for months but has not known where to begin, or whether she would be taken seriously, or whether it would cost more than she could spend.

It is for the mother in a remote community who has never heard the words ‘postpartum depression’ but whose experience, if she described it, would match the definition exactly.

And it is for the husbands, the mothers-in-law, the sisters and friends who have been watching someone they love struggle and not knowing what to offer. This is what you can offer. Put it in her hands.

The Bigger Picture

An estimated 40% of Pakistani mothers experience postpartum depression. Pakistan has just 0.19 psychiatrists per 100,000 people, one of the lowest ratios in the world. The country’s mental health treatment gap sits at nearly 90%.

These are not problems that one day of recognition can solve. But they can become less insurmountable every time someone who needed help found it. Every consultation booked through the UPTCL app today is one mother who did not have to carry it alone. One family that got a little closer to understanding. One child whose earliest months were shaped by a mother who was supported rather than left to manage.

The change begins with a single conversation between a mother and someone who is genuinely able to help.

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KEY STATISTICS

  • 28%–63% of Pakistani mothers experience postpartum depression (meta-analysis, 2023)
  • 40% estimated prevalence of PPD among Pakistani mothers — up to 4× the global average
  • 0.19 psychiatrists per 100,000 people in Pakistan — one of the lowest ratios globally
  • 0.4% of Pakistan’s national health budget is allocated to mental health
  • 90% mental health treatment gap — 9 in 10 people who need support receive none
  • 25 million Pakistanis estimated to be living with a common mental disorder (WHO)
  • 42% of Pakistani women of reproductive age are anaemic (AKU / PMC, 2025)
  • 40% of Pakistani children under five are stunted (UNICEF Pakistan Annual Report, 2024)