A husband-and-wife team of doctors in India is making a difference in helping reduce country’s infant and maternal mortality ratios. Dr. Abhay Bang and Dr. Rani Bang lead the Society of Education, Action and Research in Community Health (SEARCH) in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra.Their Home-Based Neonatal Care Program, which trains village women to diagnose and treat newborns, reduced incidents of infant mortality over a one-year period from 120 to 30 in 39 villages in their district. During the same period, postpartum maternal morbidity in the intervention area was reduced by more than 50 percent. This program is now being replicated at seven sites in Maharashtra.In a country like India, where state-of-the-art medical care at modern hospitals is not accessible to millions of villagers, this program holds great hope.Recently Time magzine honoured them as 'Global Heroes of Health'.Government of Maharashtra awarded them "Maharashtra Bhushan'
Their work will definitely inspire generations of medicos to come.
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Series on great medicos of maharshtra is really inspiring..Dr Nitu Mandake,Dr Khade,Dr Ravi Bapat and now Mr and Mrs Bang.We hope to see articals on Dr Shriram Lagoo and Dr Mohan Agashe.
Even after qualified from USA this couple preferred to come back and work for poor indians in rural areas..it makes them distinct from others.
Salute.
This couple is not only Maharashtra Bhushan but Bharat Bhushan
First of all a salute this couple,made for eachother in it's real sense.i came to know about what they had to suffer at beginning after reading a book by dr.avachat.great people never give up,you have proved this.
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