We began in the hills of Uttarakhand, because that is where we are from and where we first saw the gap up close. But the gap is not a hill problem.
Across India, care fails to arrive for reasons that have little to do with medicine existing a health centre with no doctor, a hospital twenty minutes away that a family still cannot afford, a diagnosis explained in a language the patient does not speak, and a bill that shows up after the treatment instead of before.
The reasons change from a Pithoragarh village to a Delhi neighbourhood. The result does not.