Established in May 1970, the Sri Sathya Sai Health and Education Trust is a Public Charitable Trust, under Section 12 A of the Income Tax Act, 1961. Since inception, it has founded and run nationally renowned Healthcare Institutions across the country providing Totally Free of Cost services to all, irrespective of caste, religion, nationality or financial status.
The trust commenced its services with Sri Sathya Sai General Hospital in Whitefield in rural Karnataka, serving over two million outpatients, conducting over twenty thousand surgeries in all general specialties from over thousand villages.