Bharatia enters Healthcare sector - announces Grand Challenges

When we speak of healthcare challenges, we do not mean only the visible burden of disease. We use the term as an inclusive umbrella that encompasses the deeper and interconnected dimensions of public health, healthcare systems, and societal well-being. India’s challenges are not isolated medical issues; they are systemic chokepoints that reflect how we live, work, eat, and age—and how our health systems are (or are not) prepared to respond.

At its core, this framing captures the need for a systemic shift: from reactive, fragmented, and hospital-centric care to proactive, preventive, and community-anchored health systems. It requires us to integrate nutrition, mental health, primary care, digital platforms, and tertiary treatment into a continuum that is both affordable and accessible. It is not only about managing diabetes, cancer, or kidney disease—it is about building institutions, financing frameworks, and data systems that allow healthcare to move from crisis response to structural resilience.

Healthcare challenges also sit within a broader socio-economic canvas. They include the persistent gaps in maternal and child health, the silent epidemic of malnutrition, and the looming threat of antimicrobial resistance. They extend into the future frontiers of genomics and digital medicine, where issues of affordability, data protection, and interoperability will decide whether innovations remain elite or truly transformative. These challenges demand not only medical responses, but also new models of governance, investment, and innovation that link health to education, livelihoods, and social equity.

This is where Bharatia’s DNA comes in. We are not here to simply catalogue crises—we are here to solve them through structured, scalable, and permanent interventions. Our model of solutionism rests on a triad of policy, technology, and finance, underpinned by our unique First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) and Nth-of-a-Kind (NOAK) framework.

• FOAK projects bring together every critical stakeholder—clinicians, innovators, policymakers, financiers—as co-sponsors of breakthrough healthcare solutions. These projects demonstrate traction, build trust, and prove that innovations can work in India’s complex settings.

  
  

• Once proven, NOAK scaling ensures nationwide and global replication, backed by financing accelerators and scalable models that make solutions not just available, but affordable and sustainable.

This is not about pilot projects that fade when funding ends. It is about building permanent institutions, financing vehicles, and delivery systems that endure beyond political cycles and donor timelines.

India’s healthcare challenges, if solved, can provide the world with blueprints for equitable, resilient, and sustainable health systems. Because when a solution works for 1.4 billion people—across villages and megacities, public clinics and private hospitals—it can work anywhere in the Global South, and beyond.

This is not the beginning of another report. It is the beginning of a movement. One that turns healthcare challenges into healthcare breakthroughs. One that is deeply Indian in character, yet universally relevant in impact.

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India’s Healthcare Grand Challenges 2025–26

India’s healthcare journey is marked by both extraordinary scale and extraordinary complexity. To unlock systemic transformation, Bharatia has identified eight Grand Challenges—not as isolated problems, but as catalytic arenas where breakthrough interventions can shift the trajectory of national and global health

1. Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders

India’s “silent tsunami” — over 100 million diabetics and rising, with half undiagnosed and millions at risk of lifelong complications.

2. Cancer & Oncology

A looming crisis — 1.5 million new cases annually, 70% detected late, overwhelming families and health systems alike.

3. Infectious Diseases & Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)

From TB to dengue to drug resistance — India remains ground zero for infectious disease threats with global spill-over risks.

4. Maternal, Child & Nutritional Health

The intergenerational trap — maternal deaths, 35% stunted children, and widespread anaemia that limits productivity and futures.

5. Mental Health & Neurological Disorders

A hidden epidemic — 200 million affected, suicide as the leading cause of youth deaths, and a chronic shortage of care.

6. Kidney, Liver & Organ Health

An organ health crisis — 10% of population with CKD, soaring liver disease, and a 30-fold gap between transplants needed and performed.

7. Accidents, Trauma & Disability

The world’s highest burden of road deaths — 150,000 lives lost annually, with trauma and disability care grossly under-resourced.

8. Genomics, Digital & Future Medicine

Healthcare’s frontier — genomics, telemedicine, and AI can democratise care, but risk remaining elite unless made affordable and accessible.

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Implementation Approach

1. Outputs

   Each of the grand challenges that Bharatia is pursuing shall deliver the following outputs:

   A) First-of-a-kind (FOAK) commercial-scale project incorporating technology and operational innovation. B) N-th-of-a-kind (NOAK) financial and global dissemination framework C) Key enablers framework

2. Approach

   The grand challenges list will be dynamic and updated on an ongoing basis.

   - A working group will be formed for each Grand-challenge

   - A task-force made up of experts will be formed around each sector and functional expertise. Task force members can join multiple working groups.

   - Bharatia will present project briefs and concept ideas to the working groups for their additional inputs and suggestions.

   - Once the adequate level of suggestions have been received and internalised, the project(s) will move into finalisation of the consortium.

   - Bharatia will secure project financing and initiate the implementation.

3. Who can Partner

   - Knowledge Partners - Project co-developer - Technology provider (full system) - Equipment provider

   - Medical solutions provider

   - Operations partner - Financing institutions - debt, equity, guarantees and technical assistance - Change agents - local NGOs and individuals - Media and Outreach

To participate in the Healthcare challenges, please register your interest using the link below:

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