What I MASSIVELY DISLIKE HOWEVER is the system as a whole. I got to the Travel Clinic today and I had to wait an hour to be seen... people were coming in after me, seeing the Nurse and then leaving before me! The "Receptionists" (if you want to call them that - I'd say they were on school work experience or something) were crap and of no help.
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Anyhow. I went in and got Hep A and Hep B and Yellow Fever. The Nurse gave me a little certificate confirming I had the Yellow Fever vaccination and I need to go back for my second and third Hep B jabs over the next two weeks. Three injections cost £147. But it was either - pay now and be skint or wait 'til I get to Dubai and get everything else apart from Yellow Fever (which needs to be done in your home country before travelling) done and have the money come out of my wages. Hmph.
I asked about the rest. Diptheria, Typhoid, Tetanus, Polio, Meningitis. "Oh you will have had the first four jabs when you were 14 or 15 but you won't be able to remember. You'll have to go to your old school and find out if they have your records to prove you've had them. You'll need a meningitis jab but we'll put Hep A and B in your left arm and Yellow Fever in your right."
I've had Chickenpox (I remember it well - Christmas Day 1997!) but I need to go get screened for immunity against it, which means another GP appointment. I need to get screened for Tuberculosis too because as I don't have a scar on my arm from the injection like most people do, I can't prove that I've had it and it's not on my health records. If I can get the TB info from my old school that'd be fabulous though.
I think this picture sums up my anger at the stupidity of some healthcare services in this otherwise glorious country:
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I must go to sleep soon! I'm at work at 01:30. It's 19:38 now... but on the bright side I finish 07:30 tomorrow morning so when I'm finishing work, people are just getting ready to start their shift! Muahahaha. Update tomorrow on my whirlwind arm stabbing vaccination adventure xx
