A woman who built a hospital by selling vegetables

[suresh1773]

Hats off to the old lady & her son Ajit

 

[Nicky G]

Actual real life hero. Kudos mam.

Kya kiya ab tak woh Buddhu ne?

But .. but ... women empowerment.

 

[wolfschanzze]

Actual real life hero. Kudos mam.



But .. but ... women empowerment.

How by RTI or by escape velocity of Jupiter?

 

[uparyupari]

This woman deserves a Award like Bharat Ratna.
She didn't even spend a paisa on luxuries for herself and sent away her son to a orphanage to save money.
Great Mother, This is how our Mothers are,sacrificing themselves and everything for the sake of the family and goal.That is the culture of the Sub-Continent and the Asian nations.
While some people think aping Western Culture is being modern and Progressive.They have no idea about our Human values and culture in East.

I agree, definitely a padma Award. These are the right people who should be recognized and awarded. ............. not film stars and sports person.

Giving Bharat Ratna to Sachin Tendulkar was a complete waste.

 

[wolfschanzze]

Rajiv Gandhi ne uske life mehm kya kiya. But he also got that award so RaGa also deserve it. We should be fair to him.

He is nothing but a sperm of the Gandhi family,Who did nothing in life ever for this nation.

I agree, definitely a padma Award. These are the right people who should be recognized and awarded. ............. not film stars and sports person.

You forgot to add

Even this child needs to be honoured.

 

[simplestguy]

Salute you....

 

[qasimali]

Most insperational

 

[RepublicOk]

Respect!!!

 

[Luca1]

A great inspirational story from India. Her story tops all the weapons or scientific achievements from not just only India, but the rest of the world as well.

 

[East or West India Best]

My family also built a hospital and let the government run it free of charge, we would assume all costs. The government gave doctors for a few months and then stopped sending them. It's been vacant for 2 years now, this is how corrupt our government is.

 

[Luca1]

My family also built a hospital and let the government run it free of charge, we would assume all costs. The government gave doctors for a few months and then stopped sending them. It's been vacant for 2 years now, this is how corrupt our government is.

It's sad that you even have to grease their palms for charitable work. But don't give up trying to help the poor. India need more people like you.

 

[uparyupari]

My family also built a hospital and let the government run it free of charge, we would assume all costs. The government gave doctors for a few months and then stopped sending them. It's been vacant for 2 years now, this is how corrupt our government is.

LOL....why do you need govt. to send doctors ?

Why can't you just hire doctors ? You can hire a doctor in India for 200 $ a month ........... what a load of cr@p. No wonder only a chinese believed your story.

 

[Aepsilons]

There are few who dare to dream and fewer who make that dream a reality. A 65-year old woman, who lost her husband at the age of 23 due to lack of medical treatment, has today set up a hospital to make sure everyone doesn't suffer the same fate as she did.

Subhashini was born in a poor family of farmers in West Bengal. She was married in an early age of 12. At the age of 23, her husband passed away due to lack of good treatment for an illness at a government hospital. He was a poor labourer. Subhashini was left all alone with her kids. She decided that she would not let anyone else face the kind of difficulties she had to face due to lack of healthcare.

For the next 20 years, She washed dishes, polished shoes, worked as a construction labourer and for 20 years she sold vegetables at Kolkata's Park Circus, never spending a single penny on life's luxuries - all this because she had not given up on her dream of building a hospital.

"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 recalls.

The only silver lining in Subhasini's life was her eldest son Ajoy. He was a good student but she couldn't afford his schooling. So she sent him to an orphanage. Ajoy became a doctor.

By late 1993, a small temporary shed had been put up on one acre land bought by Subhasini from her life long savings. Her son Ajoy and another volunteer doctor were ready to start work after they finished their shifts at another hospital.

The first day they managed to treat 252 patients. Subhasini had to hold back tears as she watched patients line up outside the shed. “But this is not enough,’’ she told Ajoy. “We need to build a proper hospital.’’

So she went back to the streets to sell vegetables. Her elder son Sujoy, who had graduated from college, joined her and together they began earning more and saving more. Ajoy began knocking on corporate doors and soon funds began to trickle in – from local residents, companies and charities – and on February 5, 1995, the foundation stone for a proper hospital was laid. A year later, on March 9, 1996 the two-storey Humanity Hospital was opened to the public.

It is today spread over three acres and has the best of doctors and medical equipment. Major surgeries for the poor are done for less than Rs.5000 and minor ailments are treated for under Rs.10.

Today Ajoy and his three siblings are Subhasini's pillars of strength. He attends to the patients in the hospital, his wife feeds them and his sister is a nurse there. With Ajoy at the helm of affairs she now spends most of her time tending to the sick or looking after her grandchildren, but she's quick to point out that her mission is not over yet.

Source: The Logical Indian
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Who said one need high education to do something meaningful in life? Very inspiring, please read the full story, you will like it.

If more and more people aspire to the same kindness, grace-filled mission, and austerity, then this world would be a little bit more peaceful, prosperous in the sense of human dignity and human transparency. I pray that more years be blessed on Ms. Subhashini. May her tribe increase !

 

[Dr. Sen]

My family also built a hospital and let the government run it free of charge, we would assume all costs. The government gave doctors for a few months and then stopped sending them. It's been vacant for 2 years now, this is how corrupt our government is.

Tell me more about your hospital. Equipment etc? I am willing to volunteer.

 

[East or West India Best]

LOL....why do you need govt. to send doctors ?

Why can't you just hire doctors ? You can hire a doctor in India for 200 $ a month ........... what a load of cr@p. No wonder only a chinese believed your story.

We are going to know. After years of dealing with bullsh*t from the government we are done with this sh*t. My family no longer lives in India and shouldn't have to take the burden of hiring and managing a staff of doctors. We developed a hospital on our own F$CKing land, incurred all the expenses, had a fricking agreement with the government and they screwed us over like that. How dare you accuse me of lying? Just because your family has no $$ doesn't mean we are.

It's sad that you even have to grease their palms for charitable work. But don't give up trying to help the poor. India need more people like you.

You know the old adage, give a man an inch and he'll take a mile? In India, he won't stop at a mile. You can't do anything the correct way or they will screw you over. We also hold an annual vision drive so the poor can get their sight checked and any vision ailments like cataracts fixed. We run into problems with that too cause everyone loves a bribe in India.

If more and more people aspire to the same kindness, grace-filled mission, and austerity, then this world would be a little bit more peaceful, prosperous in the sense of human dignity and human transparency. I pray that more years be blessed on Ms. Subhashini. May her tribe increase !

In the end she will fail, I'm sorry about that. In India someone is always trying to screw you over. In our hospital, they never told us that the doctor no longer came, we had to hear it from people.