Astha Hospital

People usually find us because we’re right near Hindustan Medical Stores here in Barakar. It’s a busy spot on the street. Most mornings start with the sound of shutters going up and the road outside getting noisy with traffic and people walking to work. We’ve been here a while now, and the building has its own quirks, like the way the light hits the front desk in the afternoon or how the floor tiles are a bit worn down in the spots where everyone walks. Inside, it’s mostly just us doing what needs to get done every day. There are chairs lined up in the hallway for whoever is waiting, and sometimes it gets a bit crowded when a lot of folks show up at once. You can hear the fans humming almost all day long. It isn't a fancy place with high-tech gadgets everywhere you look, but it works for what we do. The staff knows most of the shop owners around Barakar. If you’re walking from the main road, you’ll see our sign pretty clearly. We spend a lot of time organizing files and making sure the floors stay clean enough. It gets dusty outside, so that’s a constant job for the cleaning staff. We don’t have any big corporate slogans or anything like that. It’s just a hospital where people come when they aren’t feeling well. Sometimes the tea stall nearby brings over snacks for us. We just try to keep things moving.