Published 29 January 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b281
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b281

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Lifetime Achievement Award shortlist: Dr Hanumappa Sudarshan

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Dr Sudarshan has spent his career improving the health of rural and tribal people in India. He developed a public-private partnership model of primary health care with the Karuna Trust, a charitable trust based in Bangalore that he set up 10 years ago. Since then, the trust has set up primary health centres in three states, providing health care to more than 600 000 people in rural India.

The Karuna Trust primary health centres provide around the clock emergency and casualty services, outpatient facilities on six days a week, a small five to 10 bed inpatient department, and 24 hour obstetric facilities.

Dr Sudarshan is firmly committed to state provision of health care, but set up the trust when it became clear that many primary health centres in rural India were providing very poor services, with insufficient staff and poor access to drugs. The trust’s aim is to set up . . . [Full text of this article]


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