70 lakh + patients served. 3 tertiary-care hospitals. Social development programs across slums and villages. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Vaidyakiya Pratishthan (BAVP) is a charitable trust providing quality and affordable healthcare services to the poor across India. Today, what started in 1989 as a 10-bed hospital run by a group of self-committed doctors has taken the shape of 3 tertiary-care hospitals across the country, one of the biggest blood banks in Asia, a nursing college, and social development projects in 100s of slums and villages across community health, women empowerment, education, natural resources management, skill development, etc. BAVP is now embarking on an ambitious project to establish a medical college in the city of Aurangabad. The institutions under BAVP are: - Dr. Hedgewar Hospital, Aurangabad - Babasaheb Ambedkar Medical Research Society, Aurangabad - Dattaji Bhale Blood Bank, Aurangabad - Savitribai Phule Mahila Katma Samaj Mandal - Dr. Hedgewar Nursing College, Aurangabad - Swargdeo Siu-ka-pha Multispecialty Hospital, Assam - Shri. Guruji Rugnalaya, Nashik