The Longest Running Free Clinic

This good news story features the inspiring doctor Ramana Rao, who started the world’s longest running free clinic in Bangalore, India.

He began his medical studies in the 1960s when cholera and typhoid were epidemics. Due to lack of awareness and medical centers, rural India was hit the hardest.

The intelligent and kindhearted Rao “always believed that the will to serve is much stronger than all the resistance of the world put together.”

Since 1973

The day after he earned his MBBS degree in 1973 he fulfilled his amazing dream to open up a free treatment center in the tiny village of Begur.

He started out treating five patients, within five years that number had grown to over 300. Now in its 45th year, there are days when up to 2,000 people wait to be treated and Ramana has helped over two million people!

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