Imagine reaching out to lakhs of rural and underprivileged people with over 200 kinds of generic medicines free of cost and medical consultation for a nominal fee! Anant Nevatia of the Rural Health Care Foundation has been doing just that, in West Bengal, for more than a decade.
IN INDIA, WIDE DISPARITIES exist as far as health-care facilities and infrastructure are concerned between the cities and relatively backward villages. For the country’s rural population, access to qualified doctors, modern medical resources and treatments is mostly limited since hospitals are located at great distances and transport options are few and unreliable. Moreover, when it comes to the country’s rural public health system, poor health care and long waiting times are common. Travelling to private hospitals located in urban areas is also tedious and expensive. As a result, people in rural areas are often forced to approach quacks and spend their money on wrong, and sometimes fatal, treatment.
Fortunately, some organisations like the Rural Health Care Foundation (RHCF) have stepped in to provide health-care facilities to the lowest strata of the socio-economic pyramid. Working on the belief that every person has the right to benefit from health-care services, RHCF has been providing primary health-care facilities to underprivileged, rural people in West Bengal for more than a decade. “Our goal is to help the rural poor by providing them with quality health care at affordable costs,” says Anant Nevatia, the president of RHCF. Today, the organisation operates 20 primary healthcare centres—15 in rural West Bengal and five in the city of Kolkata. “Till date, over 21 lakh patients have received treatment at our centres,” states Nevatia with pride.
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