Prabha Ayurvedic Hospital

Prabha Ayurvedic Hospital is right on Cross Cut Road in Gandhipuram, which is probably one of the busiest streets you’ll ever find in Coimbatore. We are in the Clarity Opticals building, specifically at 409. Finding us means navigating through all the shoppers and the bikes parked everywhere. Once you get inside and head up, it gets a little bit quieter than the street level, but you can still hear the buses shifting gears outside. The smell of herbs is usually the first thing people notice when they walk in. It’s a familiar scent to us now, but it’s quite strong. We have various rooms set up for the different treatments. The wooden tables and the brass pots are things we use every single day. It’s not like a modern hospital with white tiles everywhere; it feels a bit more traditional and worn in. We spend a lot of time preparing the oils and keeping the rooms clean after each person leaves. The staff usually brings their lunch and eats in the back room because there isn't much time to go out once the rush starts. Cross Cut Road is always a mess of traffic, so we often tell people to give themselves an extra twenty minutes just to get to the door. We’ve been here in Gandhipuram long enough that the local shopkeepers all know us. It’s a hectic place to work, but we like being right in the middle of everything. It keeps us on our toes through the whole shift.