The Hospital initiated a Rural Health program in 1986. Shri. Rajiv Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India and President of Kamala Nehru Memorial Hospital Society, laid the foundation stone of Kamala Nehru Memorial Rural Hospital in 1987 at Village Newada Samogarh, Naini, Allahabad. The Rural Hospital was inaugurated in 1988. The Hospital serves as a base centre for preventive oncology and cancer detection at the grass root level in the surrounding villages. A Community Oncology wing was established in the Rural Hospital in 2003.

The rural campus of KNMH, located in Naini, in Allahabad was inspired by the vision of Rajiv Gandhi. This project not only promotes awareness of better nutrition and hygiene, but also conducts regular immunization programmes. Hospital workers contribute to the empowerment of women by providing vocational training to promote economic self reliance in the region. The main objective of this project was to provide accelerated primary health care and improve maternal and child health at the grass root level.

• Family panning camps
• Mobile medical teams which provide primary health care
• Health education to promote family welfare programmes by individual contacts, group meetings, and audio-visual shows.
• Establishment of Mahila Mandals or Women's group centres
• Vocational training

The Hospital has established a 15 bed rural hospital to provide composite primary health care at the grass root level to the village population.

Plans to upgrade this hospital to a 40 bed hospital are underway. Land and trained personnel are being contributed on behalf of the hospital, however there is a great shortage of funds, which are urgently required for construction, maintenance and equipment. The management of the hospital would like the hospital to be self-sufficient by the year 2003.

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The Hospital is engaged in conducting short term training courses for medical and paramedical staff :

• Rural health programmes
• Early cancer Detection and Prevention
• AIDS awareness and health care management
• Training of traditional birth attendants is also arranged in ante-natal, natal and postnatal care and sexually transmitted diseases

The hospital had undertaken two USAID - government of India sponsored projects under their - (PVOH) - 'Private Voluntary Organization for Health Scheme'

• PVOH-1 :
  Accelerated primary health care to improve maternal and child health at the grass root level. (1986-1990)
  
  
• PVOH-2 :
  Intensive programme of medical health and family welfare to improve social and economic structure of the project population. (1993-1997 March)