Rani Bang

Founder

Founder of SEARCH

Rani Bang is the founder of SEARCH [1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare, tribal welfare and rural & agriculture from Gadchiroli.

SEARCH

SEARCH (Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health), founded in 1988 by Dr. Abhay Bang and Dr. Rani Bang, provides healthcare to rural and tribal communities of Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, from its Shodhgram campus. Its community-based newborn-care research has shaped national and global health policy; it reports 150,000+ patient treatments a year.

SEARCH reports the following, on its own site:

1,50,000+ patient treatments annually
17,000+ neonates treated in the community
80,000+ adolescents given life skills education
134 villages covered by its community laboratory and vital statistics system since 1988