Question

information of Dr Abhay and Rane Bank

Answer 1

Dr. Rani Abhay Bang and her husband, Dr. Abhay Bang, make a wonderful and inseparable couple, who have dedicated themselves completely to the social and educational upliftment of the lowest of the low, namely, the tribal people of Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra, their ‘Karmabhumi’, by providing effective medical and public health services to them.

On her return to India from the USA, Rani and her husband set up a grassroots health organization SEARCH (Society for Education, Action & Research in Community Health) in 1986. This institution, after surveying the health conditions among the people in the villages of Gadchiroli, came up with the startling discovery that 92 % of women in these villages had gynaecological disorders, a good part STD-related. Another study in the same 58 villages revealed that pneumonia was a major child killer.