Injections

Just been to have our Hepatitis A and Typhoid jabs, it would have been a quick and easy procedure had it not been for the children. They behaved like a pair of overgrown babies and both of them screamed the surgery down. It took so long to calm them that we ended up getting a parking ticket!

One thing I will miss about Singapore when we leave, is the health service. Everything is just so simple and straightforward. Almost every shopping area has a health centre, if you need to see a doctor you just walk in, there is no need to be registered or make an appointment. You do have to pay but it is often not much more than an average prescription charge in the UK, and the hospitals are just something else. Forget all notion of what you expect a hospital to be, you would swear that you were in a five star hotel. Vast reception areas with lavish marble floors and columns, huge floral displays and uniformed doormen, the hospital we go to near work, Raffles International, even has a grand piano in the entrance area! don't ask me why, it is bizarre. My favorite is the women's hospital, the car park is painted bubblegum pink and all of the nursing staff wear pink uniforms, it's like a toy hospital, you half expect doctor 'Barbie' to come and examine you!
In Singapore there are two national obsessions, shopping & eating, and they don't let a trivial thing like a life threatening illness get in the way! Most of the hospitals have a shopping mall and a varied selection of restaurants on site. The hilarious thing is that in the restaurant area there is invariably a branch of MacDonald's, in a hospital!! still I guess it's good for business :)

Carri x