Hospital Excursion - Health City, India

Get Well in Health City

Welcome to Jubilee Hills. Here you see houses that match America's elite and health clinics, pharmacies and billboards showing mothers with their young all culminating up to the grand treasure of the "health city"; Apollo Hospital. This is considered one of the best hospitals in India.
By no means can it compare with American hospitals, but by India's standards it is a 5 star. All the departments are listed along the far right wall when you walk in like the vietnam memorial depicting the names of its fighters, except here you see the surgeons and doctors names immortalized as the healers of the people.
It was definitely a journey getting to the HR department to inquire about internship or volunteer opportunities. It was like these people didn't know what we wanted to do. After getting sent to the blood bank and food department, we finally had someone write down the name and floor of where we were supposed to end up. We eventually found ourselves staring at the vast landscape, mountains and hills of Hyderabad on top of a 5 (technically 7) story building. Yes, I do mean the roof. The HR department was in prime location, look at the view! We went inside this glass department office on the roof and asked for Mr.Reddy.
But the story gets better...after explaining to the HR manager what we were trying to do, he said there would be an application to fill out and this would have to be approved by the vice president or someone important along those lines.
He gave us a white blank sheet of paper and told us to write what we want on it. Then he showed us to a very elaborate conference room fitted with leather chairs and a white board with a mahogany table and told us we could "deliberate" here. It was all very ironic and interesting, but we managed to complete the extensive application for his and his boss' review.
I do hope we (I and the other premed, health students) get an opportunity to work here. It would definitely be a valuable experience to see how the universal healthcare and quality of medicine is like in India.