Veena Clinic

Veena Clinic is located in the basement of Ashraya Apartments in Sultanpalya. We are right in the R T Nagar area, and the State Bank of India branch is quite close, so most people use that as a landmark to find us. Being in a basement means it stays a bit cooler during the hot Bangalore afternoons, but we do have to keep the lights on all day. It is a modest space. We have a small entrance and a few chairs tucked against the wall for waiting. We have been operating out of this apartment building for a long time. People from the apartments upstairs come down, and so do the people from the surrounding streets in Sultanpalya. It’s a very local crowd. We handle the usual stuff—mostly fevers, aches, and general health checkups. We don't have any high-tech equipment here. It is just a thermometer, a blood pressure cuff, and a stethoscope. The records are kept in big physical files that we pull out when a regular patient walks in. Sometimes it gets a bit dusty being below street level, but we try to keep it as tidy as possible. The noise from the street filtered down through the vents is just the background of our day. It’s a straightforward clinic for people who live nearby and want someone they can talk to without any corporate formalities. We are just here doing our job every day, seeing whoever walks down the stairs for help.