"Haji Mujibir Rahman taught himself medicine. ""It's not great but at least we have something,"" says the soft-spoken self-effacing old man. He runs a pharmacy and a basic diagnostics outfit on a sandbar island, a char, that the map says rose from the Ganges to join with Jharkhand.  They don't have hospitals? They do. That is, they have a shell of a building. No doctors, nothing.  Have they asked the government for it? Several times, during elections, paid for with their sworn loyalty. The politicians leave empty-promise souvenirs."
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