Rani Bang
FounderFounder of SEARCH
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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
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Gadchiroli
- Founded
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- Press
- 3
References
- [1] “Upon return from the States, they chose to work in Gadchiroli, one of the least developed, most neglected regions of India, where health care was an urgent necessity. They established the tribal friendly hospital and a community-based healthcare programme in 134 villages.” — SEARCH. Source
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