Dr. Bang is founder-director of SEARCH, an NGO that provides community health care to the tribes of Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra. With an MD from Nagpur University and a Masters in Public Health from John Hopkins, Bang and his wife Rani have worked at reducing infant mortality rates by 50 percent in the areas they operate in. He is currently a member of the National Commission on Population and also serves on the advisory board for the global Saving Newborn Lives Initiative
The world is increasingly being shaped by new knowledge. The inventions of the steam engine and automobile, of telephone and television, of vitamins and vaccines have shaped our lives more than the presidents and prime ministers of those times. ‘How to achieve 10 percent rate of economic growth?’ is a less important question than how to achieve growth of knowledge by way of research.
Standard medical guidelines advised immediate hospitalisation of sick newborns. But hospitals were too far and too costly. Traditions prohibited moving the recently delivered mother and newborn out of the home. Why not then move medical care to the home?
(This story appears in the 04 June, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)
Greatest work in rural non developing area. I like to join for your work
on May 16, 2016Well said..truth said. Much of solutions to different social issues lies in the communion of the researcher and receiver. .Lets stop waiting for research labs to give miracles.Let's stop thinking governments is going to bring a magic policy that will change the lives of your's and the society. Innovate wherever you are and search for whatever you don't have to take it to success.
on Jan 14, 2012Health problems in India needs research.
on Dec 8, 2011