The Story — twenty-eight years before our first bottle

The arc, in four chapters

i 1998 The medical camps. A young doctor begins R.K. HIV AIDS Research and Care Centre in Mumbai. ii 2019 Bollywood Shivir. The free camps grow into a cultural event drawing the film industry. iii 2020 Doctor 365. The work moves into homes. Home dermatology becomes the foundation. iv Today Doctor 365 Care. The next chapter — twenty-eight years of work, in bottles.

Mumbai, 1998.

The medical camps.

In 1998, in the city of Mumbai, a young doctor named Dharmendra Kumar set up the R.K. HIV AIDS Research and Care Centre. The work was simple in intent and immense in scope: bring medical care to people who could not get to it. Free camps. In streets, in slums, in towns. Patients seen by volunteer doctors. Medicines distributed at no cost. Eye exams, dental checks, cancer screening, HIV testing in an India that had only just begun to acknowledge the epidemic.

The work scaled in a way nobody could have planned. Twenty-eight years on, the R.K. HIV AIDS Research and Care Centre has held over 29,500 free medical camps. More than four million Indians have received free care through its programmes. Fifteen of those camps have been recognised in the Guinness Book of World Records.

A single camp at MMRDA Ground, Mumbai, served 311,000 patients in one day.

This is the lineage of Doctor 365 Care. Not pharmaceutical money. Not venture money. The discipline of a twenty-eight-year medical mission that has put care into the hands of people who could not afford it. A founder who has spent his career making healthcare accessible. A team that knows what working medicine looks like.

Everything we make begins here.

An apothecary still life — glass jars of dried botanicals, brass weighing scale, mortar and pestle, on an aged oak surface in warm afternoon light.

Mumbai, 2019 — today.

The Bollywood Maha Arogya Shivir.

In 2019, the medical camps grew into a cultural event. The Bollywood Maha Arogya Shivir — a free mega medical camp organised by Doctor 365 and the R.K. HIV AIDS Research and Care Centre, in partnership with the DRVA Charitable Trust — invited Bollywood to lend its visibility to the cause. The film industry showed up.

Through five editions, the Shivir has served hundreds of thousands of patients across Mumbai. In its 5th edition in January 2026, the camp served 56,000 patients in a single day at Chitrakoot Ground in Andheri West. ₹2.5 crore in free medicines were distributed. 1,200 wheelchairs given. 13,000 eye examinations with free spectacles. 800 doctors and 1,100 paramedical staff mobilised. Press coverage in The Tribune, The Wire, The Print, India News, and across regional outlets.

The Shivir is not a marketing event. It is what the parent brand does.

The fact that Bollywood comes is downstream of the fact that the medicine is real.

This is who Doctor 365 Care comes from.

Mumbai, 2020.

Doctor 365.

In December 2020, after the first pandemic year had reshaped Indian healthcare, Doctor 365 Haleness Services was incorporated as the home healthcare arm of the broader mission. The work shifted from camps to homes. ICU at home for critical care. Home nursing. Home physiotherapy. Online doctor consultations across Mumbai, Delhi, and Kolkata. Home dialysis. Mother and baby care. Ambulance services. Air ambulance.

The home dermatology and cosmetology practice — the lineage that matters most for Doctor 365 Care — was set up alongside the rest. Dermatologists from the network were dispatched into Indian homes for in-person consultations. What started as a service offering has, over the years that followed, become a quietly accumulating dataset of in-home skin observation that almost no other Indian skincare brand has access to.

Doctor 365 has now served 2,52,000+ patients in their homes. It maintains partnerships with 75+ hospitals across the country. Annual patient visits exceed 50,000. Corporate clients include HDFC Life, Vistara, ICICI Foundation, MSTC, Cloudtail, the Juhu Airport Authority, and ONGC.

This is not a healthcare-services brand pivoting opportunistically into skincare. It is a healthcare-services brand that has been doing home dermatology for years, and is now bringing the formulation discipline of that practice to the shelf.

All figures stated here are as published on doctor365.co.in.

Mumbai, today.

Doctor 365 Care.

Doctor 365 Care is the next chapter. We are taking the dermatology practice of Doctor 365 and the discipline of twenty-eight years of medical work — and putting them into bottles.

The brand exists because there is one question we kept hearing from the patients our dermatologists visited: what should I use, every day, that is made for my skin and my climate? No brand on the Indian shelf has answered it well.

We are building three lines — face, body, hands — formulated by our team of dermatologists and skin scientists, tested in our patient population, made for the realities of Indian skin. Three lines, one practice of care, one home.

We are not in a hurry. We are launching when the formulations are ready, and not before. Subscribe to The Cabinet to be early when the first range opens.

A family lineup of three Doctor 365 Care vessels — a frosted glass cream jar, a tall pump bottle, and a shorter hand pump — arranged on cream linen in warm afternoon light.

The next chapter

Three vessels for the everyday routine.

A jar for the face, a pump for the body, a smaller pump for the hands. Considered objects designed for the practice of care we have spent twenty-eight years observing.

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Early visualisations. Final identity and packaging are in design — finished pieces will appear when we open.

Twenty-eight years inside Indian homes taught us what skin actually does here. The next chapter is what we choose to put in the bottle.

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Twenty-eight years before our first bottle.

The medical camps.

The Bollywood Maha Arogya Shivir.

Doctor 365.

Doctor 365 Care.

Three vessels for the everyday routine.

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