Mchinmay Hospital & Research Centre (Opc) Private Limited

If you walk down Hospital Road in Laheriasarai, you’ll find us easily enough near Nawal Kishore Pathak’s place. Darbhanga is always busy, and this particular street is no exception with all the rickshaws and motorbikes zooming past. Our building is right in the thick of it. Inside, it smells like any other hospital, a mix of cleaning supplies and medicine. We have been here for a while now, serving as a spot for both general care and some research work. It gets loud outside with the horns honking, but we have thick walls to keep the patient rooms a bit quieter. The lobby is usually full by nine in the morning with people holding their files and waiting. We don't have fancy leather chairs, just the standard metal ones that are easy to wipe down. The staff stays busy filing papers and checking vitals. It is a bit of a maze sometimes with all the corridors, but you get used to it quickly. We see people coming in from all the nearby villages because Laheriasarai is a central hub. It’s a lot of work keeping up with the maintenance, especially with the monsoon rains making everything damp. We just keep our heads down and do the job day after day. There is no grand philosophy here, we just open the doors and help whoever walks in with a health problem. It’s a local operation run by people who live right here in the city and know the community well.