rural healthcare

When reporting from rural parts of Assam, Sanjoy Hazarika noticed the intense need for a sustained healthcare system in the region. In collaboration with the National Rural Health Mission, his non-profit, C-NES, launched boat clinics in 2005 to bridge the healthcare divide.

Sandeep Kumar from Uttar Pradesh started DigiSwasthya to help villagers access timely healthcare through teleconsultations with urban doctors. So far, he has catered to over 28,000 patients free of cost.

To improve primary healthcare services in rural areas, Akanksh Tandon launched DigiQure, which provides teleconsultations at Re 1. He claims to have catered to over 20,000 people in rural Madhya Pradesh so far.

Set up by former Army doctor Dr Sunil Kaul and his partner Jennifer Liang, Mental Illness Treatment Alliance (MITA) has helped thousands in rural Northeast India access affordable mental healthcare.

Priyadarshi Mahapatra quit his job at Google to launch CureBay, a healthcare startup that delivers affordable care right at the doorsteps of people living in Odisha’s most backward regions. He shares why he started this endeavour.

Dr Manisha Gupte and Dr Ramesh Awasthi run MASUM (Mahila Sarvangeen Utkarsh Mandal), a collective of thousands of women across Maharashtra who mobilise to gain a better understanding of their sexuality, and what rights they have over their bodies.

Dr Himmatrao Bawaskar, Padma Shri awardee, conducted monumental research and work into finding a way to treat scorpion stings. He brought the case fatality rate down from 40% to 1% in India.

Hyderabad-based Biological E, founded in 1962, is preparing to launch a low-cost COVID-19 vaccine called Corbevax.

In less than a year, an Indian Institute of Science (IISc) incubated startup named PathShodh Healthcare in Bengaluru has developed a portable antibody test kit that can identify COVID-19 infections and an individual’s immune response to the disease.

Shantanu Pathak, a Mumbai-based entrepreneur, was always motivated to work in the health-tech sector. But an unfortunate incident of a friend's high-risk pregnancy opened his eyes to the lack of access to quality pregnancy care -- a purpose he dedicated his life to. He is now being supported by the Marico Innovation Foundation to take his work forward.