Mumbai, Sept. 26 -- Hospitals, residential schools, a science college and an upcoming university: the institutions that have turned Dharampur from a place people left for care and education into a place people come to

On a night this May, a 40-year-old man from a village in Vansda taluka was rushed to the emergency department of a hospital in Dharampur, in Gujarat's Valsad district, with a severe brain haemorrhage. Despite the ICU team's efforts, he was declared brain dead. His family chose to donate his organs.

Within hours, his heart was on its way through a green corridor to Daman airport and then flown to Ahmedabad. His kidneys went by ambulance to a kidney institute in Ahmedabad. Three patients received a new lease of life. It was ...