[12] Declining the offer of the post of a professor of medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and choosing not to resort to private practice, he engaged himself fully into the work associated with VHS.
[1] Gathering assistance from his students and some of the notable personalities of like Kasturi Srinivasan, T. R. Venkatarama Sastri, M. Bhaktavatsalam, and M. A. Chidambaram, Sanjivi developed Voluntary Health Services with the work on the hospital building starting in 1961, the foundation stone laid by then prime minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru.
The institution has grown over the years to become a tertiary care 405 bedded referral hospital[2] and still maintains the practice of 70 percent of patients getting free medical service which includes food and medicines.
[1] It also runs a medical aid plan, a form of insurance scheme for the lower and middle income families.
[1] Towards the latter part of his life, Sanjivi got involved in the Aid prevention and control activities and one year after his death, his activities were recognized by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) by selecting VHS in 1965 as a nodal agency for the implementation of the AIDS Prevention and Control (APAC) project in the state of Tamil Nadu.