In southern Rajasthan, faced with dwindling land sizes and disappearing forests, many young tribal men would migrate to cities such as Ahmedabad to work as manual labour, leaving behind women, children and the elderly. In the absence of men and cash, they find it even more difficult to access distant and expensive healthcare.
Basic Healthcare Services set up a network of primary health centres (PHCs), called AMRIT Clinics, in six such communities in southern Rajasthan with the aim of providing low-cost and responsive healthcare.