At the Modi Dharamshala right across Jaipur’s biggest government hospital — the Sawai Mansingh Hospital — patients start trickling in at 4 pm. Many of them are patients suffering from acute renal failure, their day’s dialysis done and a tiny room in this guesthouse their temporary home.
Many have been here for over 10 months. Others have had a shorter stay. But they all have one situation in common — they are patients whose kidneys have packed up and they are waiting here for a transplant.
Jayantilal and his wife Anita had left their home in Bagidora village in south Rajasthan’s Banswara district in March. They have been in Jaipur since. More than 530 km away, their son is managing their grocery shop. It is the family’s only source of income as they wait for a transplant.
