Trip to Portsmouth

Queen Alexandra Hospital
Today our class had the possibility to visit a typical english hospital in the city of Portsmouth. As we arrived there, we were a bit surprised about the condition of this huge building. In opposite to an austrian hospital, it looked like a huge field.
Before we started to enter the hospital we were devided into 3 groups and guided by 3 very nice "hospital educaters and developers" as they were called.
We entered the building at the back of the hospital which was the former access during the second world war. Two words : Old and shady!
But as we moved on, the conditions got better and better. We inspected 4 different wards on 4 floors. The technical and hygenical standards were quite the same as in austria but there was one big difference. The ammount of patients in one room was between 8 - 18(in the dialysis). As i asked our guide if that's normal, he answered :"Yes, and the patients seem to be content with this conditions" And in fact, they are.
The tour through the hospital took us about 1 hour. Then we hade to move on to our next station:

The Mcmillan Cancer Center
The projekt of our group is all about that topic. So we were quite excited to see and to listen what it's about.
The Cancer Center is located in a hospital 20 minutes away from Queen Alex. Hosp. It's a charity company which means that it's funded by donations. In the UK there are about 100 centers. The Mcmillan Cancer Center is one of the top 10 charities.
The presentation was really interesting and touched us on an emotional level. We realized that they do their job because they are really convicted about what they are doing. One word: Corporate Identity!
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