His breathing was noisy and hard, hands were cold and face blank and pale by the time his son brought him to the emergency department of the hospital. He was in his seventies. This was a private run secondary care hospital with a small medical intensive care unit with basic facilities, an emergency department with limited resources and a few regular rooms of reasonable quality. In short, it is a typical small scale community hospital.

But it is a huge relief for the local population that there is a medical facility within their reach that they could. But it is a huge relief for the local population that there is a medical facility within their reach that they could depend on, for many health issues, from common infections to lifestyle diseases. This was a reliable place for the care of pregnancies and normal deliveries, for conducting minor surgeries and for managing less complicated…