Tata Tea General Hospital

If you visit us in Munnar, you will find us right among the hills. The address is just Munnar P.O., which tells you how small the town feels. It is a beautiful place, but working here is different from the city. The mist comes down heavy in the mornings, and sometimes it is so thick you can barely see the tea bushes across the road. We serve a lot of the families who work on the tea estates. The hospital building has a bit of an old-world look to it, with sloped roofs to deal with all the rain we get. It can be quite damp inside during the monsoon months. We don't have the big city rush, but we have our own kind of busy when the tea picking season is at its peak. Life moves a bit slower here. Our staff often walk to work through the paths in the plantation. We have a small garden in the front that we try to keep tidy, though the weeds grow fast in this climate. Inside, the floors are stone and the ceilings are high. We carry out our tasks without much fuss. Most of our patients speak the local language and have lived here all their lives. It is a quiet, steady kind of work. We handle whatever comes our way while the clouds move over the mountains outside. It is just a simple life here.