Many parents want their children to become doctors. Unfortunately, in rural India these dreams don't often come true.

For Asia Heart Foundation this project is close to our hearts, as we believe that this is not just a question of helping others but helping our future. We are privileged to have created some of the best heart hospitals of India. We brought high technology heart surgery to the level of a common man. We proved to the world that by paying just Rs.5 a month you can run world’s largest micro health insurance program, we made telemedicine a reality in association with ISRO and we introduced new techniques of treating various heart diseases. Keeping this in mind we would like to mentor and guide these meritorious children.

The scholarship program will give us a platform to share their aspirations to become doctors and also create a bond with these children that will extend beyond the time that they spend in the program

Today most medical colleges, both Government and private, are filled with children of doctors and other professionals mainly coming from urban India. Twenty years ago any brilliant child from a village could aspire to become doctor since the living expenses in the cities was not very high. With more prosperity in all Indian towns where most medical colleges are located, farmer’s child has no place. Can we reverse this trend?

Keeping this in mind we have set the ball rolling by starting this scholarship program, which will launch 150 rural students of on a journey to become qualified doctors. These 150 students in West Bengal is a start but can only begin to address the situation. In the future we will extend this program to 2000 students annually, making it 2000 more doctors for India every year. To do this we need your help, support and generous contribution. We want this program be launched only in West Bengal since West Bengal is close to our heart.

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