GNRC, formerly known as Guwahati Neurological Research Centre is planning to initiate air ambulance and medical outreach programme using helicopters to remote areas of North-east India. The service will regularly ferry doctors from GNRC to difficult-to-access locations across the region and provide doorstep medical support to the population across the North-eastern states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim.

GNRC, which completed six months of GNRC’s North Guwahati campus is the first of its kind super specialty healthcare facility in the entire North East. The 300-bedded hospital is equipped with diagnostic and treatment facilities. GNRC provides ultra-low-cost services such as doctors’ consultation for US$ 1 to 2; blood sugar test for 35 cents, thyroid profile for US$ 3; CT Scan for US$ 15 and MRI for US$ 42.

Dr Nomal Chandra Borah, CMD of GNRC Hospitals informed that the hospital has been receiving enormous response in the first six months of its operations and is presently receiving up to 200 out-patients every day. GNRC Medical was recently chosen by the World Bank Group (WBG), through its India Development Marketplace (IDM) initiative, to receive a grant of US$ 150,000. Borah said, “The grant and tailor-made capacity development programme by the World Bank Group (WBG) will help us to scale up our operating model and bridge the gap between healthcare requirement and availability. We intend to set up ten more hospitals in the region and beyond, within the next five years."