The G V Modi Rural Health Care Centre & Eye Hospital at Abu Road was built in 1994 with support from the Modi family of Surat, our patron - Robin Ramsay of Australia, and Government funding received under the National Programme for Control of Blindness.

The hospital was established as a general health centre, also housing a laboratory, x-ray unit, pharmacy, dental clinic, and most important, an eye clinic that would function as a referral cum post-operative check-up clinic for the many eye patients seeking surgery for cataract, glaucoma and other blindness causing illnesses.

Since then, the ophthalmic unit has been shifted to the Global Hospital Institute of Ophthalmology. The G V Modi Rural Health Care Centre presently houses a family medicine-cum-geriatric medicine clinic, a blood collection centre and a pharmacy. A visiting neuropsychiatrist and dermatologist also offer their services at the centre on a weekly basis. Since the centre is located adjacent to the Shantivan Complex of the Brahma Kumaris, which is visited by thousands every year, it offers a number of health check-up packages and counselling services for the benefit of these tourists.