The Rural Medicare Society

Despite economic progress so far, there is no equitable distribution of health care in India. The benefits of modern medical care reach only the rich and the privileged while almost 400 million population of our country cannot afford the high cost of such care. The crushing burden of privatized health care and out-of-pocket medical expenditure co-exists in our subcontinent. Resolving this is the driving force behind the medical team at the Rural Medicare Centre (RMC), the hospital run by Rural Medicare Society, as they make inroads into socially relevant and inclusive health care. Dealing with the lack of access for socio-economically marginalized people to the primary and secondary level of health care is not about vacuuming the conscience of the doctors of RMC. Rather it has spurred them on a committed mission to enable people to avail themselves medical expertise with dignity across the counter at an affordable cost.