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Kasturba Health Society

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Rural healthcare and medical education in Gandhi's Sevagram

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Registered on 11 September 1964 to manage the Kasturba Hospital that grew out of Mahatma Gandhi's Sevagram ashram dispensary, the Kasturba Health Society is the voluntary society behind India's first rural medical college — the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, founded in 1969 by Dr. Sushila Nayar, Gandhi's personal physician. In village Sevagram in Wardha district, the society runs a 660-bed teaching hospital serving the rural poor of Vidarbha and beyond, community-based medical education that immerses doctors in surrounding villages, and the Dr. Sushila Nayar School of Public Health — keeping Gandhian values at the heart of low-cost, high-quality rural healthcare.

Founder
Sushila Nayar
Sevagram (Wardha), MaharashtraSince 1964

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