Dum Dum Medical Centre

Down on Pollock Avenue in the 24 Parganas area, you’ll find Dum Dum Medical Centre. It sits right in the middle of a lively neighborhood where everyone seems to know each other. We’ve been part of this community for a long time. The clinic isn't huge, but we make the most of the rooms we have. People usually drop in for their routine checkups or to get a quick test done. We have a small team here, and we all know the routine pretty well by now. The chairs in the waiting area have seen a lot of use over the years. It is not the quietest place because of the street noise, but it is convenient for the people living nearby. We don’t have any fancy bells or whistles. It is just a place with doctors and nurses doing their jobs. Sometimes the wait times are a bit longer than we’d like, especially when several people show up at once without calling ahead. We try to get through the list as quickly as we can without rushing the actual consultations. Dealing with health stuff is just part of daily life, and we are here to help with that. Most of our visitors live just a few streets away, so it feels like a very local operation. We keep the lights on and the doors open throughout the week, just keeping things moving one patient at a time. It works for us and it works for the people who come to see us.