Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba’s vision of ideal healthcare is predicated on six principles. These principles are based on a strong commitment to universal high-quality healthcare. Through the establishment of super-specialty hospitals, general hospitals, and various outreach healthcare programs in local rural communities around his Ashram, Baba modeled for the world how these six principles of ideal healthcare are both achievable and sustainable.

1. Universal Healthcare: Baba has repeatedly emphasized that state-of-the-art healthcare should be available to all people and especially the poor. In keeping with this commitment, He established a chain of super-specialty and general hospitals that deliver high-quality medical care to all. In addition, with His guidance and blessings, healthcare professionals provide free healthcare to local communities in over 30 countries.

Doctors should serve the poor with a spirit of sacrifice. There is no greater service than this. As man is the embodiment of God, it is his primary duty to help the destitute and the forlorn. Medicine should not be commercialized. It is meant to promote a heart-to-heart and love-to-love relationship between doctor and patient. A true doctor is one who realizes this truth and conducts himself accordingly.–Sri Sathya Sai Baba, 2003

2. Free Healthcare: Baba has deemed that high-quality healthcare should be delivered free of cost to all patients. Therefore, all Sri Sathya Sai Hospitals and all clinics and medical camps administered across the world by the Satya Sai Organization deliver such care free of cost to all those they serve.

Welfare services should be free for all. There are numerous people who cannot afford the costs of medical treatment. Doctors should render free service to such persons.–Sri Sathya Sai Baba, 1995

3. Loving Healthcare: Baba has emphasized that healthcare workers should deliver healthcare with love and compassion, which is what transforms healthcare workers into healers. Maintaining a loving attitude and approach to patients also transforms the work of healthcare into a spiritual practice, thereby enriching the healer as well as the patient.

If the doctor is full of love and compassion, God works through him. Doctors therefore have to endeavor to become the receptacles of Divine Power during their healing process.–Sri Sathya Sai Baba, 1980

4. Comprehensive healthcare: Care of each individual must include consideration and treatment of the body, mind, and spirit. Without recognizing and addressing the profound impact of each of these areas on the others, healthcare risks being incomplete.

Man suffers from two types of ills, physical and mental. They are caused by disequilibrium of the three tempers and three gunas. Physical health is a prerequisite for mental health, and mental health ensures physical health.–Sri Sathya Sai Baba, 1959

5. Preventive Healthcare: Baba said that the duty of the physician is to treat all with love and compassion, but also to educate patients about how to live healthy, fulfilling lives that prevent or reduce the need for frequent visits to the physician or hospital.

The current belief is that medicine is to be valued for its use during illness. But this point of view has to change. Medicine is used to see that one does not fall ill, just as the purpose of truth is to so live that one is not subjected to birth again.–Sri Sathya Sai Baba, 1980

6. Immediate Healthcare: Baba emphasizes that loving, high-quality healthcare should be delivered in a timely manner to those who are in immediate need and distress.

Sick people must be given immediate medical attention.–Sri Sathya Sai Baba, 1967

Source: https://www.sathyasai.org/discourse/sathya-sai-ideal-healthcare