What ails Indian Healthcare today? There is no short answer, but the main fault line lies in the serious inequities that riddle the system. There is no consistency in the availability, price and quality of healthcare across regions, income levels and the urban - rural divide. Savita Memorial Trust’s flagship programme, Health Equity, is attempting to redress this imbalance, to bridge this vital gap, with a model of integrated healthcare thoughtfully constructed to bring healthcare to the Last Citizen in our villages.

Savita Memorial Trust was set up in 1974 by the late Dr.HM Patel, India’s former Finance and Home Minister, in memory of his wife, Savitaben. Though it has carried out some minor activities in the past, Health Equity is its first major initiative, initiated in 2023. The project is located in Sojitra because Savitaben was born and brought up there and, even though it lies a mere 25 kms from Anand, India’s milk city, Sojitra suffers from a significant deficit of healthcare infrastructure and services.

What drives Health Equity’s model is the belief that professional healthcare is a right that all citizens deserve, those in the villages no less than their urban counterparts. Health Equity’s solution is to train and place competent manpower at the primary and secondary care level, and to support these trained individuals with infrastructure, systems and processes in a self-sustaining manner.