"Tribhuvandas Foundation is an Integrated Rural Health & Development Programme of Amul. Inspired by the great success of round the clock health care services to the livestock of dairy farmers of Kaira, Shri Tribhuvandas Patel, the Founder Chairman of Amul felt the need of such a service to the rural populace too as he could learn and experience the afflictions brought to them by absence of medical services in rural villages of Kaira. He donated the prize money of his Ramon Magagsasy Award and the fund he received from karia farmers on his retirement, for his life time service to them, to set up this Foundation. Dr V. Kurien also played an active role in this set up. It was registered as a Charitable Trust under the Public Trust Act 1950, on July 1975.

The Foundation derives its uniqueness from the fact that it is a need-based programme for villagers and is run by the villagers themselves. It fulfils the basic health care needs of the villages. Apart from providing primary treatment for various common ailments, the Foundation is also actively involved in promoting preventive health practices. It is headquartered at Anand with sub-centers spread over the district Anand and Kheda. The Foundation has a dedicated Team of Medical Officers, Nurses, Administrative staff, Dais (Traditional Birth Attendants) and Village Health Workers to provide the following services:

Treatment of common ailments; Immunization through vaccination – BCG, Triple Vaccine, Polio, Measles, Tetanus, Anti rabies at subsidised rate; Treatment of tuberculosis and anaemia ; Antenatal,postnatal care, neonatal and infant care ; Nutritional rehabilitation centers for undernourished children and vulnerable mothers; Identification of suspected cases of cancer and referrals ; Education and counseling on reversible and permanent methods of family planning, health education sessions and referral of critical cases to secondary and tertiary care centers; Building partnership with government for family planning programmes in rural areas; Distribution of contaceptive tablets and condoms through regular camps; Laparoscopic TL and minilap operations, insertion of Cooper-T (IUD), and Tubectomy; Cancer awareness programme, detection camp and treatment at Shri Krishna Hospital, Karamsad; Balawadis (Day Care Centres) for pre-school play and learning activities for children of three to five years.

It also provides continuous training and retraining to Village Health Workers who are chosen from villages with the help of the Dairy Co-operative Societies. This enables the Village Health Workers to carry out health education and primary health care from door-to-door, in groups and at the Dairy Co-operative Societies Centres with confidence. The training focuses on primary health care, waterborne disease, know your body, pregnancy and the delivery period, new born care and care of the weak child, growth monitoring, breast feeding, common disease of childhood, malaria, tuberculosis. Training is also imparted on other topics as the need arises.