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After 36 years of service, Indian expat Ashokan Kony Poriyan leaves the UAE shores with a heavy heart. He started his stint as an office boy and hanged his boots as a senior insurance coordinator of Dar Al Shifaa Hospital in Abu Dhabi. While looking back, he regrets having not found a balance between his personal and professional life - a simple but difficult thing that he wants other expats to consider seriously.
Ashokan hails from South Indian state of Kerala. His father used to run a hotel in Kannur district, but due to his failing health it had to be shut down. With three brothers and two sisters to feed, Ashokan took over the mantle from his father. He left Kannur and worked at a construction firm in Bangalore. It was 1982 that his Gulf journey began.
"Dar Al Shifaa is Abu Dhabi's first private hospital and started in 1982. I joined the same year as an office boy. After two years, I moved to the cafeteria. By 1986-87, I used to maintain medical files and later worked as receptionist and cashier."
It is the boom of medical insurance companies in mid-1980s that saw Ashokan starting to manage claim forms.
"I was given the training and worked as an assistant. I learnt the medical terms and procedures on the job."
Ashokan is a dedicated staff member of the hospital who couldn't find time for himself or his family.
"It is now that I notice that I don't know most of the places in Abu Dhabi even though I have stayed here for this long. I used to shuttle between work and my room, and couldn't find time for anything else. I must have visited Dubai a few times," added Ashokan, whose work culture and dedication is hailed by the hospital group MD, staff, HR manager and Indian Embassy official.
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