Abstract
India has supported the ideal of health for all since it become an independent nation more than 60 years ago. The Bhore Committee report1 in 1946 recommended a national health system for delivery of comprehensive preventive and curative allopathic services through a rural-focused multilevel public system, financed by the government, through which all citizens would receive care irrespective of their ability to pay. However, a newly independent India faced monumental challenges in 1947. The country had been divided by a bloody partition, poverty was widespread, the economy was weak, and the administrators were new. The population’s health was grim. Memories of the Bengal famine of 1943, which killed 2–3 million people, were still fresh, health services were concentrated in urban areas, and health indicators were universally poor with a life expectancy at birth of 37 years. Much progress has been recorded since then. Life expectancy is greater than 60 years, and the India of 2011 is a thriving democracy with a diversified production base, a large scientific community, and an impressive information technology sector.
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