{"id":1306,"date":"2023-08-31T14:29:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T21:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=1306"},"modified":"2025-06-10T13:51:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T20:51:52","slug":"in-the-news-shuchin-bajaj-wins-the-social-entrepreneur-of-year-award","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/stories\/in-the-news-shuchin-bajaj-wins-the-social-entrepreneur-of-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Shuchin Bajaj wins the 14th Social Entrepreneur of Year Award-India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newvoicesfellows.aspeninstitute.org\/related\/shuchin-bajaj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shuchin Bajaj<\/a>, our 2022 New Voices Fellow and founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/ujalacygnus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ujala Cygnus Healthcare<\/a> which provides super-speciality tertiary health care at low cost to underserved communities, was recently awarded the 14th Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award-India.\u00a0Shuchin notes in his winning speech that 60 million people in the country are\u00a0 &#8220;slipping below the poverty line every year just due to health care shocks&#8221; and highlights the importance of working together &#8220;to get rid of that number completely&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ujala Cygnus\u2019s chain of low-budget and patient-friendly hospitals, with more than 500 doctors and medical experts in 17 cities, has benefited more than two million patients. It has also trained more than 55,000 community medical practitioners.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Shuchin&#8217;s work and his efforts to enable access to healthcare to underserved communities in India read the full story below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","publication_category":[69],"publication_theme":[57,55,61,81],"class_list":["post-1306","stories","type-stories","status-publish","hentry","publication_category-award","publication_theme-health","publication_theme-health-equity","publication_theme-innovation","publication_theme-social-entrepreneurship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_category?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"publication_theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_theme?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}