While working in a highly reputable private hospital in New Delhi, Dr S M Ziaur Rahman encountered an impoverished patient from Bihar — tired, anxious, and far from home. That meeting would go on to alter not just two lives, but the very landscape of healthcare in the village he had once left behind.

“I met a patient whose blood pressure was 20/150. During our conversation, he mentioned that he came from a rural area that lacked access to doctors. I got curious about his background, so I asked him more about where he was from. To my surprise, he said Khagaria — my own district in Bihar. That patient had come all the way from Bihar to Delhi [1,200 kilometres] just for the treatment,” he shares.

This revelation shook him. “Despite the presence of world-class medical care in places like Delhi, there was still a lack of adequate services in my region. This experience lit a spark in me — a determination to work in my hometown and improve healthcare access there,” adds Dr Rahman.

At the time, Dr Rahman was working in the non-invasive cardiac department and had a clear path ahead: a stable, high-paying career in the city. But that single conversation awakened something deeper — a pull towards home, where healthcare was not a business, but a lifeline.

“In cities, healthcare is business; back home, it’s about survival,” he says. That became the cornerstone of his mission: to provide accessible healthcare to the people of his hometown.

An innocent childhood promise

Dr Rahman was born into an impoverished farmer family in a small village in Bihar’s Khagaria district. His father owned about five acres of land and........

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