One year old jab

This morning I had a rather frustrated waiting period...where did I went? Government clinic for Shone's one year old jab..

I shouldn't have been feeling annoyed and frustrated....after all it is sort of like EXPECTED? Long wait...long queue etc? That is what I have been experiencing every visit after all? Haih...pathetic...why must we tolerate such poor service? I am sure other country's government offices/services fare much better? Or at least that is what we all expected.

Can you imagine, for each injection trip, it'll take me at least 2 hrs 30 mins?

1 hr merely to wait to get our waiting no!!! Yes 1 hr!

Then, another 1 hr 30 mins to go from weighing and checking height counter -> interviewing counter of sort...for their recording purposes whether our child met the right weight and milestones plus setting the next date of appointment and getting our medication slip(if required like fever medication etc) -> FINALLY injection place.

Phew...

The fact that the place is hot and crowded makes each visit barely tolerable, cannot imagine how the low-heat-tolerance babies and pregnant women can stand this kinda environment. In fact, the uniform the nurses wear I bet it's quite thick and hot too...pity them too..

Actually recently the govt. clinic I been visiting has been renovated a bit..furnished with air-cond, big TV to entertain patient on waiting and also computers(supposingly to speed up their service??)....

However today(after 6 months) when i went, the air-cond and TV seems like white elephant, either spoilt or not being ON and the computers are being removed from their counter???!! To think I felt..wow..on my last visit to see such improvement...haih...heading backward again...

Sorry to be seemingly so impatient and ungrateful...for having such affordable checkup and immunization program by the government, guess we all like to have better service no matter by private or government offices rite.

Anyway, here's for record purpose:

Shone weighted at 11kg at 1 year 4 days which the nurse says is a good progress (nope not overweight as Shone is a big baby from birth at 4.24kg). He took 3 in1 jab at government clinic which the nurse told me such jab would cause fever only a week later(if any) so fever medication is to be given only when fever(touch wood) occurs. By the way, one old folks way to avoid getting fever after injection is to feed the child barley water before the jab ..I done it..hope it works ;)

Cheers for the day!