Government Of Karnataka

We’ve been here in Chikodi for quite a while now. This general hospital is where most people from around the district come when they have trouble with their bones or joints. Being the Government of Karnataka facility here, it stays pretty busy most mornings. You’ll see folks sitting on the wooden benches in the hallway waiting for the orthopaedic surgeon to see them. It isn’t a fancy place with shiny walls, but the rooms are kept as clean as possible for the patients. The building itself has been part of this area for years. Most of us working here know the local faces well. We handle a lot of fractures and old aches that come with working in the fields around Belgaum. Sometimes the electricity acts up, or the water takes a minute, but we manage with what we have. It’s a practical setup. People bring their kids in after a fall, or the elderly come because their knees aren’t what they used to be. We don't have a big marketing team or anything like that. It’s just the staff, the medicine, and the patients who walk through the door every day. If you ask anyone in town where the hospital is, they’ll point you right here. It’s a landmark in its own way. We just keep things moving, making sure the plaster is set right and the charts are filled out. That's really all there is to our daily routine here in the hospital. We just try to do right by the community.