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Most Indians live far from specialised digestive and metabolic care. They are also surrounded by misinformation – about food, about gut health, about when to seek help. Public-health attention focuses on the cities. The Tier II towns and the villages that surround them are largely on their own.
Digestive Wellness Foundation was set up in 2026 as a Section 8 charitable company to change that. We work in three connected ways: education that families can trust, community health programmes delivered through schools and camps, and research that turns what we see on the ground into evidence other practitioners can use.
We partner with schools, hospitals, and community organisations to deliver direct healthcare where it is most needed. Our 2026 surgical camp at Hemalkasa, Gadchiroli – held in collaboration with AMASI and Lok Biradari Prakalp – provided 42 surgeries for tribal patients who had been waiting years for care. An earlier camp in Pimpalgaon at Dhanwantari Hospital, had 17 surgeries.
We are running NSCOPS-2026, a community-based study of childhood obesity and body composition in school children across Nashik. The study is the first of its kind for any Tier II Indian city. Every participating child receives a free personal health report. The aggregate findings will inform school health policy and clinical guidelines for adolescent obesity management in Tier II India.
Most of my professional life has been spent operating on the consequences of digestive and metabolic disease – gallstones diagnosed too late, obesity that became diabetes, gut cancers that should have been caught earlier. The hospital is where these conditions end up. The community is where they begin.
Digestive Wellness Foundation is my attempt to work on the beginning. To make trustworthy information accessible in Marathi and Hindi, to support communities that hospitals do not reach, and to generate the local evidence that makes better care possible. There is much we do not yet know about digestive and metabolic disease in Tier II India. We are starting with the questions that matter most to families here.
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This is not an ordinary decision, and we do not approach it like ordinary consultants. We guide students only toward the world’s Top 100 universities…
Every programme is grounded in published evidence and clinical practice. Our public health content is reviewed by practising specialists. We are honest about what we do not yet know.
Our community programmes and education content are produced primarily in Marathi and Hindi, not in English first. Health information that does not reach the family in the language they think in does not reach the family at all.
We do not endorse pharmaceutical products, supplements, or commercial wellness offerings. We do not accept funding that is contingent on promoting a product. Our content exists to inform families, not to sell to them.
