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The Health Worker

The Health Worker

By: Radio Azim Premji University
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The Health Worker brings you stories from India’s frontlines of care, from doctors, public health workers and community organizers who are transforming what health means. Across hospitals, hamlets and homes, the series traces journeys where compassion meets science and where care becomes a collective act of trust.

Hosted by RamG Vallath of the Azim Premji Foundation, the show listens to people who have gone beyond prescriptions and hospital walls to redefine what it means to heal. They work in places where resources are scarce but determination runs deep, where a clinic might also become a classroom, a shelter or a village assembly.

From palliative care in remote communities to mental health outreach for the homeless, from rural doctors rebuilding public systems to the unseen kindness behind eye donation, each episode reminds us that healing is not something delivered but something built together.

Through these voices, The Health Worker offers a rare portrait of care in its truest sense, as relationship, responsibility and quiet courage.

 Social Sciences
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  • Dr. Regi George: The Valley That Learned to Heal Itself

    Dr. Regi George: The Valley That Learned to Heal Itself
    Nov 7 2025

    A doctor. A child’s death. A question that changed everything.

    At Gandhigram Hospital near Madurai, Dr. Regi George and Dr. Lalitha Regi began to wonder if medicine alone could change lives. That question took them to the Sittilingi Valley in Tamil Nadu, where they started the Tribal Health Initiative — a small mud-hut clinic that grew into a community movement.

    Today, the valley has zero maternal deaths, thriving organic farms, women’s enterprises, and a panchayat that works for its people.

    This isn’t just a story of doctors.

    It’s the story of how a community learned to heal itself.
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    33 mins
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