Masarhi is a village in Bihar so steeped in grinding poverty that its people are known to hunt rats in their fields and eat them. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, however, these hapless people with so little have what many residents in cities don’t — an easily accessible and affordable hospital with state-of-the-art facilities to treat patients sickened by the virus.
It is just a small 50-bed hospital and it began in 2015, much before the pandemic, as an even more modest community health centre set up by Doctors For. . .