sospiri
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
OK, here we go with vaccination Greek style using the Pfizer jab.
We had appointments for 2:30pm and 2:45pm today at Neapoli Hospital, our cottage hospital about 7 minutes drive away. We were told to get there at least 15 minutes beforehand and arrived at 2:02pm. At the main hospital door we had our details and temperatures checked and then allowed to proceed about 5 yards to the main reception desk where we were booked into the computer system and given an additional sheet of paper authorising the procedure and then followed a black taped line on the floor to what was once No.1 outpatients surgery, now bearing the official government vaccination centre poster on the door, and told to sit down on chairs spaced out. Sitting in one was a Brit friend who was having her blood pressure taken.
A couple of minutes later she went into the surgery for her jab and a nurse came and asked us what medication we were one. My other half Jan is very organised and we each carry of copy of our medicines. A few more minutes wait and Jan was called into the surgery, and about two minutes before my appointment time I was called in and there was Jan with a stent in her arm, but having already had the jab. As she is diabetic and on low dose aspirin they were taking no chances! On hand were a doctor and two nurses. I've been in this hospital so many times that it was like greeting old friends because I know most of them.
So next followed another temperature check, a blood pressure check, and an oxygen level check, and finally the jab in the top of my arm. Painless and all over in five seconds. Then I was told to sit outside for 15 minutes and was shortly joined by Jan. After the 15 minutes was up, our blood pressures were taken again, but the doctor had wandered off somewhere and the nurse could not release us or remove Jan's stent until authorised by the doctor. A few minutes later she returned, OKed our release and Jan's stent was removed. We were back home 15 minutes later, we checked our emails and there were the first reminders for second jab on 22nd March already!
It was a very straightforward and friendly experience. So far no after effects. But not busy at all. A nurse left her copy of the appointments for the day on an adjacent chair and they were only vaccinating 41 people between 11:30am and 4:00pm today. Currently Greece is doing the over 75s so it will be a long time before all of the population are done, and Greece was one of the first to acquire supplies of the vaccine in the EU. We were notified when they had installed the fridges before it even arrived!
Maurice
We had appointments for 2:30pm and 2:45pm today at Neapoli Hospital, our cottage hospital about 7 minutes drive away. We were told to get there at least 15 minutes beforehand and arrived at 2:02pm. At the main hospital door we had our details and temperatures checked and then allowed to proceed about 5 yards to the main reception desk where we were booked into the computer system and given an additional sheet of paper authorising the procedure and then followed a black taped line on the floor to what was once No.1 outpatients surgery, now bearing the official government vaccination centre poster on the door, and told to sit down on chairs spaced out. Sitting in one was a Brit friend who was having her blood pressure taken.
A couple of minutes later she went into the surgery for her jab and a nurse came and asked us what medication we were one. My other half Jan is very organised and we each carry of copy of our medicines. A few more minutes wait and Jan was called into the surgery, and about two minutes before my appointment time I was called in and there was Jan with a stent in her arm, but having already had the jab. As she is diabetic and on low dose aspirin they were taking no chances! On hand were a doctor and two nurses. I've been in this hospital so many times that it was like greeting old friends because I know most of them.
So next followed another temperature check, a blood pressure check, and an oxygen level check, and finally the jab in the top of my arm. Painless and all over in five seconds. Then I was told to sit outside for 15 minutes and was shortly joined by Jan. After the 15 minutes was up, our blood pressures were taken again, but the doctor had wandered off somewhere and the nurse could not release us or remove Jan's stent until authorised by the doctor. A few minutes later she returned, OKed our release and Jan's stent was removed. We were back home 15 minutes later, we checked our emails and there were the first reminders for second jab on 22nd March already!
It was a very straightforward and friendly experience. So far no after effects. But not busy at all. A nurse left her copy of the appointments for the day on an adjacent chair and they were only vaccinating 41 people between 11:30am and 4:00pm today. Currently Greece is doing the over 75s so it will be a long time before all of the population are done, and Greece was one of the first to acquire supplies of the vaccine in the EU. We were notified when they had installed the fridges before it even arrived!
Maurice
