This forms the first part of a four part series which comprehensively explores the Indian healthcare scenario. The first part talks about the challenges in the Indian healthcare market, the second part about the chllenges of reach and scale in rural areas, the third part about dealing with quacks, or informal healthcare service providers, and the fourth part involves an overview of the main problems preventing the scale of healthcare access to all in India, and nine solutions for these problems. Read the first and the second parts here and here.