Calcutta Medical College & Hospital

If you walk down College Street in Kolkata, you can’t really miss the Calcutta Medical College & Hospital. It’s at number 88, right on Chittaranjan Avenue. This place is huge and always crowded. There are people everywhere—patients, families, students in white coats, and doctors rushing from one building to another. It’s an old place, and you can tell by looking at the walls and the high ceilings. The 700073 area is always busy, and our hospital is right in the thick of it. The smell of medicine and floor cleaner is pretty much everywhere. We have wards that are always full and corridors where people are waiting on benches. It’s not a quiet or peaceful place; it’s loud and a bit messy sometimes. The fans hum constantly to keep the heat away. There’s a lot of history in these bricks, but honestly, we’re usually too busy with the daily work to think about that. Students are always carrying heavy books and looking tired from long shifts. The tea stalls right outside the gate are where everyone goes for a quick break. It’s a government hospital, so things take time and there’s always a lot of paperwork. We just keep the doors open and try to get through the day’s list of patients. It’s a massive operation and it never really stops. It’s just how things have always been at this corner of the street.