Al Azhar Medical And Super Speciality Hospital

You’ll find Al Azhar Medical And Super Speciality Hospital over in Thodupuzha, right near Kumar Mangalam Road. Being in Idukki, the weather can be a bit unpredictable, which often affects how many people show up at our doors. The hospital is a fairly large building for this area, but inside it feels more like a local hub. We get people traveling quite a distance from the hills and the surrounding villages to see us. It’s a lot of walking back and forth through the corridors for the staff. The road outside, Kumar Mangalam Road, is usually busy with people heading into Thodupuzha. We aren't a corporate chain with a headquarters in a different state; we are just here in Idukki. Sometimes the equipment acts up or we have to wait a while for supplies to be delivered up the road, but we make do with what we have. The waiting rooms are often full of families who have brought lunch with them, so it feels very lived-in. We don’t have a professional cleaning crew that comes in every hour, but we keep things as tidy as we can between the rushes. It’s a practical, hardworking environment where the main goal is just getting through the patient list. It’s just life in a Thodupuzha hospital, dealing with the daily grind and the local rain.