Workhard Hospital

Workhard Hospital is located at 111 A Rash Vihari Avenue. If you know Kolkata, you know how hectic Rash Vihari can be. There are shops everywhere and people constantly walking past the front door. We are right in the middle of all that noise. The building isn’t the newest on the block, but it’s sturdy. We have a lot of history here, and some of the nurses have been working these halls for thirty years. They know where every squeaky floorboard is. The lobby is usually full of people leaning against the walls or sitting on their bags. We don’t have much room for fancy extras. The focus is always on the patients in the beds. The doctors often look like they haven’t slept much, but they still manage to talk to every family. We have a small area where staff can sit, but it’s usually piled high with boxes of supplies. The smell of the city—exhaust and street food—wafts in whenever the door opens. We use a lot of floor cleaner to keep the place tidy. It’s a tough environment sometimes because it’s so busy, but we just keep at it. No one here is trying to be a hero; we are just doing the jobs we were hired for. The afternoon sun hits the front windows hard, making the waiting room quite bright. We just pull the shades and keep working until the shift ends.