Arogya Sena

Pune, Maharashtra India

NGO / Public Service

An Idea is born... Medial relief work during Latur earthquake was an eye opening experience. Due to lack of medical knowledge survivors could not help the victims and unfortunately government medical help reached very late. So if common man was given the knowledge of ‘Disaster Management and Medical Relief Work’ it would change the face of Disaster Management in our country, Dr. Vaidya thought. After coming back from Latur he put forward the idea of training common man in ‘Disaster Management and Medical Relief Work’ and organizing them into a national organization which he named 'Arogya Sena' (Health Army). The soldiers of this Health Army would rush in the events of disasters natu