Tiruvalla Medical Mission Hospital

Down here at Tiruvalla Medical Mission Hospital, things stay pretty steady most of the week. Being in Thiruvalla, we see a lot of different faces coming through the doors. Some days it’s quiet, and you can hear the birds outside, but usually, it’s a lot of shuffling feet and the sound of the fans humming in the rooms. We don’t really go in for anything too flashy around here. The walls are a bit plain, and we’ve had to fix the plumbing a few times lately, but it’s a solid place to work. Most of us have lived in or around Thiruvalla for years, so it feels like home to us. When someone walks in, they usually just want to know where to go and how long they’ll be waiting. We do our best to tell them the truth, even if the wait is longer than they’d like. It gets hot in the afternoons, so we keep the windows open when we can to let a breeze in. The doctors are always running back and forth, and the nurses are busy with their clipboards and medicine carts. We’re just a group of people trying to keep the place running and making sure everyone gets seen. It’s not always perfect, and sometimes we run out of chairs in the waiting room, but we manage. It's a lot of hard work, but we’re used to it by now. We just take it one day at a time.