🏥 DMCH’s ICU Is in the ICU: How Bihar’s Healthcare Flatlined Under Nitish Kumar’s Watch

Rats run where doctors should walk. Sewers spill where patients should heal. This is not a hospital — it’s a monument to state failure.

💀 The Hospital Where Hope Comes to Die

Welcome to Darbhanga Medical college and Hospital (DMCH) — the largest hospital in the Mithila region, the so-called “lifeline” of north Bihar. Step inside, and you’ll understand the irony:

The ICU — the Intensive Care Unit — is itself in need of intensive care.

Rats scurry across wards. Garbage piles up beside patients. Sewage water seeps under beds. The smell of neglect suffocates the corridors.

If this is where Bihar’s poorest come to be saved, then death must feel like mercy.

🧫 Rats, Sewers, Garbage — The Unholy Trinity of Bihar’s Healthcare

In any civilized nation, hospitals are sanctuaries of healing. In bihar, they’ve turned into scenes from a dystopian nightmare.

At DMCH, one of the state’s premier institutions:

• Rats chew through wires and drip lines.

• Sewers overflow into patient wards.

• Garbage rots beside oxygen cylinders.

• Doctors are overworked, underpaid, and visibly helpless.

• Patients lie on floors, gasping not just for air, but for dignity.

This isn’t an isolated incident. This is institutional decay, twenty years in the making.

🧾 Two Decades of Power. zero Decades of Progress.

nitish kumar has ruled bihar — directly or by alliance — for almost 20 years. Two decades is enough time to rebuild nations. But in bihar, even the basic dignity of life remains negotiable.

The chief minister is credited with bringing “good governance.”
But if good governance looks like DMCH’s ICU, then Bihar’s definition of development is a sick joke.

Twenty years later, Biharis still travel to delhi or varanasi for basic surgeries.
Ambulances still arrive without oxygen.
And DMCH — the crown jewel of Mithila — still looks like a warzone hospital abandoned mid-battle.

💸 Where’s the Money? In Files, Not Floors.

Funds flow. Budgets are announced. Foundation stones are laid. Speeches are made.
But inside Bihar’s hospitals, nothing changes.

Because corruption doesn’t just eat money here — it eats morality.
Every missing ceiling fan, every broken bed, every absent doctor is a receipt of systemic theft.

DMCH doesn’t need more funds. It needs accountability.
It doesn’t need inaugurations. It needs integrity.

⚰️ Healthcare Is Not a Luxury — It’s a Lifeline

To be poor in bihar is bad enough.
To fall sick in bihar is a death sentence.

Healthcare should be the state’s moral duty.
But for 20 years, Bihar’s rulers have treated it as an afterthought — an inconvenience, a photo op, a line in a manifesto.

In the heart of Mithila, mothers watch their children die for lack of oxygen while ministers attend ribbon-cuttings.
And the same leaders will come again next election — with folded hands, rehearsed humility, and the same empty promises.

🧨 The Rot Is Political. The Consequence Is Human.

This isn’t just a hospital story. This is a mirror to Bihar’s governance.

When education collapses, doctors leave.
When healthcare collapses, citizens die.
And when accountability collapses, corruption thrives.

If after 20 years, nitish kumar can’t fix sewers in his largest hospital, what moral right does he have to ask for another term?

The people of bihar must decide — will they keep voting for pain wrapped in promises, or demand the dignity they deserve?

Because if citizens don’t rise, bihar never will.

🩸 DMCH: The Symbol of a Dying System

Once built to heal, now rotting in silence, DMCH stands as Bihar’s loudest scream.

Every rat in that ICU, every puddle of sewage, every unattended patient — is not a symbol of poverty, but of betrayal.

It’s not the hospital that failed the people.
It’s the government that failed the hospital.

And until that changes, Bihar’s ICU — like its governance — will remain in critical condition.