MFC is not a rigid organisation. It is a loosely knit group of friends from various backgrounds, medical and non-medical, often differing in their ways of thinking and in their modes of action. But the understanding that our present health service as well as
the system of medical education is lopsided and is in the interest of a privileged few prevails as a common conviction.

Those members who have been consistently active in mfc and are prepared to give time and energy for its organisational growth have constituted the so called ‘core-group’. The ‘core-group’ consisting of twenty to thirty friends at any given time is informal and newcomers are encouraged to join it.

Given the fact that mfc’s limited membership is geographically scattered, that our members are getting increasingly over-burdened with local responsibilities, given our ideological heterogeneity and given the self-imposed shoe-string budget of the
organisation, it has been rather difficult to keep ourselves going as a collective. Major and minor hiccoughs have been part of mfc’s existence. Nonetheless, we have contributed for more than two decades as a nation-wide, secular, pluralist, alternative
and pro–people platform of health activists and friends.

An executive committee made up of members supports the work of the mfc convenor who serves in rotation for a term of two years. The mfc bulletin editor is also chosen from among the members.

mfc is registered under the Societies Registration / 1860 (MAH/902/Pune/81) and the under Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950 (Reg.No.F-1996,Pune).

mfc’s registered address is :
c/o Manisha Gupte,
11, Archana, Kanchanjunga Arcade,
163, Solapur Road, Hadapsar,
Pune 411028.
Phone: 020 6875058
e-mail: masum@vsnl.com