Why Healstation?
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Picture this.
It was the winter of 2019, a foggy morning with the wind rustling softly through the bare, trembling leaves. A tribal village where electricity was a luxury, and mobile network a distant dream. Life here was both beautiful and heart-breaking. Beyond two dense forests and an unpredictable river that folds on itself almost seven times, time seemed to stand still and life moved at its own unhurried pace.
Dr. Gaurav Kumar, a doctor by training, a writer and photographer by passion, and a mental health activist, was wandering in this village. He met a boy who changed the course of his life.
He was a young boy, around 8 years in age, and his bright smile lit up his face. He was trying to walk but couldn’t, and waved from afar as he saw someone approaching him. As the distance grew closer, Dr. Gaurav realized that he had delayed development. But what shocked him was the chain that bound his feet – heavy, crude chain meant to hold him in place. The first time Dr. Gaurav saw him, the sight was almost too much to bear.
“That’s so inhuman,” he thought.
“How can the parents do that?”
“It must be hurting him; so cruel.”
“Superstitions—they must be to blame.”
Dr. Gaurav was shaken to the core, and the thoughts and judgements ran far and wide. He was furious, disappointed and in complete disbelief. And this is when his little sister ran to fetch their parents, and the truth hit him like a wave. The parents were daily wage labourers, barely earning enough to survive. They couldn’t afford to stay home to watch over him, nor could they leave him unattended. He had wandered into the jungle twice before, and each time, they had searched for him, terrified he wouldn’t return alive.
“I didn’t know what else to do,” his mother said through tears. “We went to temples, to faith healers, even to a doctor. Nothing worked. I was scared for him. I couldn’t lose him.” Dr. Gaurav felt the pain of the parents, and then mustered enough courage to console them.
The boy’s chains weren’t just physical – they were a symbol of the chains his family was bound by: poverty, stigma, helplessness. His mother didn’t want to chain her son. She just didn’t have another choice.
In that moment, Dr. Gaurav realized something that would change the course of his life: the world had forgotten these people. The boy’s smile haunted him long after he left the village. If only someone had stepped in earlier – someone who could understand, someone who could help, maybe he wouldn’t have been chained. Maybe his parents wouldn’t have felt so alone. Dr. Gaurav then pondered that this wasn’t just about the boy, there was an entire community that had been forgotten. How many more families were living with impossible choices? How many more children were being failed, not just by the healthcare system but by society itself? And thus, was born Healstation.
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