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Sixty-five year old Subhasini Devi was born to a poor farmer couple in West Bengal. She was married at an early age of 12. Subhasini Devi's destiny put her in difficulty and left her in deep grief when she lost her husband at the age of 23 due to lack of adequate medical treatment. The incident prompted her to build a hospital for poor patients. The hospital is situated at Kalagachia Road, Hanspukur, Joka, Kolkata, West Bengal.
After the death of her husband, she was left all alone with her kids. At that very moment, she recollected herself and decided to put her life on the line for helping people who don't have access to proper medical facilities. She fulfilled her dream of constructing hospital by collecting her hard earned money.
She had been taking up manual labour jobs for 20 long years to sustain her family and fulfill her impossible dream. She even washed dishes, polished shoes, worked as a construction labourer and sold vegetables at Kolkata's Park Circus. She sacrificed all the pleasures and never spent a single penny on life's luxuries.
"I used to earn about five paise. Two paise was for rent, two paisa was for eating and I used to save one paise," she was quoted as saying.
Subhasini had faith in her eldest son Ajoy's hard work. Ajoy stood by her as a strong pillar of support. She had sent her son to an orphanage because she couldn't afford his schooling. Ajoy excelled in his career and became a doctor.
They made a temporary shelter on an acre of land she had bought by investing her life long savings in 1993. Ajoy along with other doctors used to treat patients after winding up their shifts at hospital.
On the very first day, they diagnosed 252 patients. Subhasini could finally see her dream breathing as the patients started to line up outside temporary shed. “But this is not enough. We need to build a proper hospital,’’ she told Ajoy.
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