In India state-sponsored medical infrastructure is in total disrepair. 78% of India's population lives in rural areas having to depend on only 2% of qualified medical practitioners. Hospitals are located at great distances, transport options are few, and time away from the fields during harvest season, is unfeasible. The women suffer the most, as they need a male companion to accompany them to the doctor.
Consequently, the poor, illiterate farmer and his family are forced to rely upon the village quack who not only mis-diagnoses the ailment, and prescribes incorrect medication, but grossly overcharges the patient. Our organization called the Rural Health Care Foundation (RHCF) has come up with a working model dedicated to rural India, which is at once - affordable, replicable, scalable and hence, sustainable. This
model can readily be applied in providing primary healthcare across all developing nations. RHCF has thus, established a new paradigm in the delivery of low cost primary healthcare in rural settings.The inspiration and establishment of RHCF has its origin in the solemn fact that our founder, Mr. Arun Nevatia was diagnosed with cancer when he was only 10 years old. It has been grueling living through 35 years of successive cycles of chemotherapy and radiation therapy, not to mention their very debilitating side-effects which include -heart diseases, diabetes, and failing eye sight, to mention only a few. Yet Arun realized the blessing of being alive, the only reason for which was that he had the privileged access to the best medical care in the country, which is sadly unavailable to the vast majority in India. Arun decided to start at the very beginning. He decided to provide people who have no access to modern medicine, - affordable, reliable, primary healthcare. Amidst such circumstances, our Mayapur center was inaugurated in West Bengal in 2007. 8,000 patients showed up within the 1st month of our opening! The success of the Mayapur centre paved the way to the formation of a public trust in the name of Rural Health Care Foundation. Within the past 5 years we have opened 5 centres in 4 districts of West Bengal.
OBJECTIVE OF RHCF
To provide affordable primary health care to the rural people.
To increase health awareness including hygiene to reduce healthcare burden.
To provide well-timed, and accurate medical intervention