#Leicester Travel Vaccination Clinic

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Leicester Travel Vaccination Clinic 

We offer the full range of travel vaccinations in Leicester, including yellow fever, rabies, typhoid, Japanese encephalitis, meningitis, cholera, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, tetanus, tick-borne encephalitis as well as malaria medication. TravelDoc™ is also an official Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre (YFVC), approved by NaTHNaC.

Know more: https://www.travel-doc.com/leicester-travel-vaccination-clinic/

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Home Vaccinations

Protect yourself and your loved ones against various diseases with our extensive range of home vaccinations. Book an appointment today and experience home vaccination service that comes with our safe and secure service.

Website : https://www.homevaccinations.co.uk/

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Yellow fever vaccination - Flyingmedicine Ltd

Yellow fever describes the symptoms people get when they are affected by the Yellow Fever i.e their eyes become yellow (jaundiced) and they develop a high fever.

The disease is caused by a virus which is transmitted to people after they are bitten by an infected mosquito.

The disease causes jaundice because of liver damage, bleeding, fever and can eventually become fatal.

Current fatality rates are around 8-10%.

The Yellow Fever travel vaccination is highly effective at stopping the disease from developing.

Yellow fever vaccination is effective from around 10 days after vaccination.

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Get Private Hayfever injection in Leicester

Book a vaccine negotiate bulk prices with the service providers, hence our customers enjoy the low prices. Although our prices are competitive in the market but we do not rule out occasional clinics where you may find a lower price then us.

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Severn Pharmacy

Severn Pharmacy – Oadby – available for Prescriptions, Health Checks, Travel Clinic & Vaccinations, Online Doctor Service, Dossett/Blister Pack Service, Stop Smoking Service, Sore Throat Test, Weight Management Clinic, H-Pylori Testing and more…

Address : 44 Severn Road,Oadby,Leicester,Leicestershire,LE2 4FY

Phone Number: 0116 271 9053

Contact Email ID: info@severnpharmacy.co.uk

Business Hours: Monday-Friday : 09:00-13:00, 14:00-18:30 Saturday: 09:00-13:00

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Travel Vaccines - Vaccinations Clinic Leicester

The PrivateMedical.Clinic™ offers a range of vaccinations to all types of individuals whether for travel, general health protection, business travel or to complete vaccinations  offered in other countries.

Our ethos is to provide a high quality and an affordable service to all clients whether individuals, families, friends, schools or businesses.

More info: https://www.privatemedical.clinic/vaccinations-travel-clinic-leicester

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How worrying is the new Omicron variant? | Inside Story by Al Jazeera English Just as the world was starting to show signs of recovery from the pandemic, a new COVID-19 variant called Omicron, has been identified. Scientists say it's more infectious than the Delta strain and it's unclear if the vaccines we have now will be effective against it. The global stock market, price of oil and travel industry are already seeing its impact. Many countries have banned or restricted flights from Southern Africa, where the new variant is believed to have emerged. So how concerned should we be? And are vaccinations enough to contain it? Presenter: Hashem Ahelbarra Guests: Helen Rees - Chair of the W.H.O. Regional Immunization Technical Advisory for Africa and Member of the South Africa Ministerial Advisory Committee for Covid-19 & Covid-19 Vaccines. Julian Tang - A Clinical Virologist at the University of Leicester. Azeddine Ibrahimi - Director of Medbiotech, a Medical Biotechnology Laboratory. - Subscribe to our channel: https://ift.tt/291RaQr - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://ift.tt/1iHo6G4 - Check our website: https://ift.tt/2lOp4tL #AlJazeeraEnglish #InsideStory #SouthAfrica #OmicronVariant

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Leicester Travel Vaccination Clinic 

We offer the full range of travel vaccinations in Leicester, including yellow fever, rabies, typhoid, Japanese encephalitis, meningitis, cholera, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, tetanus, tick-borne encephalitis as well as malaria medication. TravelDoc™ is also an official Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre (YFVC), approved by NaTHNaC.

Know more: https://www.travel-doc.com/leicester-travel-vaccination-clinic/

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Yellow Fever travel vaccination in Watford

Yellow fever describes the symptoms people get when they are affected by the Yellow Fever i.e their eyes become yellow (jaundiced) and they develop a high fever.

The disease is caused by a virus which is transmitted to people after they are bitten by an infected mosquito.

The disease causes jaundice because of liver damage, bleeding, fever and can eventually become fatal.

Current fatality rates are around 8-10%.

The Yellow Fever travel vaccination is highly effective at stopping the disease from developing.

Yellow fever vaccination is effective from around 10 days after vaccination.

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Waiting List Coordiantor

NHS AfC: Band 2

UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST

CHUGGS Clinical Management Group

Cancer, Haematology, Urology, Gastroenterology & General Surgery

Waiting List Coordinator

Agenda for Change: Band 2

Permanent Full Time 37.5hours

A position has arisen within a dynamic and fast paced Endoscopy Department. As a waiting list coordinator you will be a core part of the Cancer, Haematology, Urology, Gastroenterology and General Surgery (CHUGGs) Clinical Management Group team to facilitate patient pathways and support a positive patient experience. You will work closely with your Admin Manager to ensure delivery of high quality patient services.

We are looking to recruit staff who have values in line with our five Trust values. We are a large and busy healthcare provider and want staff who are resilient, focused and who have a ‘can do attitude’. We expect that you will be highly organised individual who is a high achiever, have a high level of energy and enthusiasm, a personality that is upbeat and motivated, with well-developed communication and relationships skills.

If you believe you have the skills, expertise and motivation to be part of a dynamic and forward-thinking team, please ensure you contact us for further information or apply for one of these jobs.

Please submit your application form without delay to avoid disappointment; we will close vacancies prior to the publishing closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Please check the email account (including your junk mail) that you supplied as part of your application on a regular basis following the closing date and throughout the recruitment process, as this is how we will communicate with you.

We are committed to delivering equality of opportunity for all of our service users, and for out staff. Our aim is to create a workplace in which discrimination is outlawed, and staff and service users are equally valued and supported.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Tier 2 Certificate of Sponsorship (formerly a Work Permit)

Applications from job seekers who require Tier 2 sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, non-EEA candidates may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled EU/EEA candidate is available to take up the post as the employing body is unlikely, in these circumstances, to satisfy the Resident Labour Market Test. The UK Border Agency requires employers to complete this test to show that no suitably qualified EEA or EU worker can fill the post. For further information please visit UK Border Agency website.

JOB TITLE: Waiting List Co-ordinator BAND: 2 BASE: Your primary base will be Leicester Royal Infirmary however travel between UHL’s hospital sites will be required HOURS: 9am – 5pm REPORTS TO: Admin Manager ACCOUNTABLE TO: Service Manager ABOUT UHL, OUR VALUES AND BEHAVIOURS Our purpose. We are here to provide Caring at its best to our patients and their carers Caring at its best means at all times, we behave in line with our values. Our values are: 1.We treat people how we would like to be treated 2. We do what we say we are going to do 3. We focus on what matters most 4. We are one team and we are best when we work together 5. We are passionate and creative in our work Our strategic objectives. Underpinning our vision, purpose and values are our strategic objectives. By delivering these we will fulfil our purpose to provide ‘Caring at its best’. They place quality and safety at the heart of our hospitals; they show that timely, effective emergency care is crucial; they recognise that we want people to choose to come to us when they require planned care and they underline the importance of research and teaching in the development of our specialist services. Quality Commitment, putting safe, high quality patient-centred, efficient care at the centre of everything we do. This is our primary objective. Everything else will support the delivery of that. Surrounding our Quality Commitment are our four supporting objectives. These are: Our People: We will have the right people with the right skills in the right numbers in order to deliver the most effective care Education and Research: We will deliver high quality, relevant, education and research Partnerships and Integration: We will develop more integrated care in partnership with others Key Strategic Enablers: We will progress our key strategic enablers JOB DESCRIPTION JOB SUMMARY The post holder is require to work as part of the Endoscopy admin team to effectively manage all aspects of the Endoscopy waiting list, booking patient appointments and reception duties. KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS To work alongside the other members of the Endoscopy team, providing support to all administrative functions. To liaise and work proactively with members of the administrative teams across all 3 sites to ensure an equitable service is provided to Endoscopy patients within UHL. KEY RESULT AREAS Service Delivery & Development Make appropriate Endoscopy appointments for patients in accordance to national and local guidelines. Maintenance of the active and planned waiting list in accordance to local protocol. Ensure that all notes and reports are prepared appropriately for patient admission. Ensure that HISS and other electronic records are updated accurately and timely. Support and assist department management in the recording and updating of reports and waiting times. Patient/Customer Service Provide a customer focused reception service to Endoscopy /Day Case patients and any other visitors to the department. Liaises effectively and courteously with patients, visitors and colleagues. GENERAL DUTIES All employees are subject to the requirements of the Health & Safety at Work Act and prevailing Acts since. It is the post-holders responsibility to ensure they are familiar with all UHL Health and Safety related policies that apply to their workplace or work –practice. The post holder is required to ensure that as an employee, his or her work methods do not endanger other people or themselves. All employees are subject to the requirements of the General Data Protection Law and must maintain strict confidentiality in respect of patient’s and staff’s records. All employees must comply with the Trust’s Equal Opportunities Policy and in line with the Equality Act 2010, must not discriminate on grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, sexual orientation or sex. Other grounds on which they should not treat others unfavourably include trade union membership (or non-membership) or political affiliation, or any other grounds which cannot be shown to be justifiable. This job description is not to be taken as an exhaustive list of duties and it may be reviewed in the light of changed service needs and development. Any changes will be fully discussed with the post holder. The post holder will be required to carry out the duties appropriate to the grade and scope of the post. In order to ensure the Trust’s ability to respond to changes in the needs of the service, after appropriate consultation and discussion with you (including consideration of personal circumstances current skills, abilities and career development) the Trust may make a change to your location, duties and responsibilities that are deemed reasonable in the circumstances. Your normal place of work will be as discussed at interview and will be confirmed in Section 1 of your contract but you may be required to work in other locations of the Trust. In particular, flexibility is required across the three main Hospital sites (Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester General Hospital, Glenfield Hospital). If your initial location is based at one of these sites, excess travel reimbursement will not apply for a permanent/temporary change to base. Health Clearance for Healthcare Workers (‘Occupational Health checks’) 1) It is recommended that all new healthcare workers have checks for tuberculosis (TB) disease/immunity and are offered hepatitis B immunisation (with post-immunisation testing of response) and blood tests for evidence of infection with hepatitis C and HIV [1]. Being free of infectious tuberculosis is mandatory. Checks for immunity to measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (chicken pox) will also be made and vaccination offered if immunity is not detected. These standard health clearance checks will be completed on appointment. Managers should inform new workers that they must contact the OH department so the necessary arrangements can be made. Even if the new worker has had similar checks recently elsewhere, or has worked in UHL before, they will still need to attend for a review, unless these were undertaken at UHL as part of a current rotational medical appointment. 2) For healthcare workers who will perform exposure-prone procedures (EPPs), work in a renal unit*, or likely to practice in an exposure prone environment, additional health clearance must be undertaken. Additional health clearance includes testing or demonstration of satisfactory test results for:  HIV  Hepatitis B  Hepatitis C The exact standards that must be met are described in detail in the Public Health England document: Integrated guidance on health clearance of healthcare workers and the management of healthcare workers infected with blood borne viruses (hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV) October 2017, or revisions thereof. *Workers in renal units only need to demonstrate satisfactory results for Hepatitis B. These additional checks should be completed before confirmation of an appointment to an applicable post, as the healthcare worker will be ineligible if they do not meet the required criteria. Those who refuse to have the required tests will not be given clearance to start work. All tests will be arranged in confidence through the Occupational Health department. All costs for testing will be borne by the employing organisation. [1] Health clearance for tuberculosis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV: New healthcare workers. DoH 2007. DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE (DBS) – {Formerly known as Criminal Records Bureau (CRB)} If this post requires a standard/enhanced disclosure by the DBS, it is regulated by statute. Failure to disclose details if you are currently / or in the future the subject of police investigation / proceedings which could result in a conviction, caution, bind over order or charges is a disciplinary matter, and may result in dismissal. The cost of undertaking a DBS disclosure at the required level and associated processing costs will be met by the individual. To expedite the process the Trust will meet the initial costs of the disclosure which will be deducted from the individuals’ salary over a three month period commencing on their first months payment. INFECTION CONTROL All employees of UHL must be aware of infection prevention and control policies and are expected to follow them at all times. Any breach of infection control policies will put patients at risk and repeated non-compliance will lead to disciplinary action. SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE ADULTS The post holder is responsible for safeguarding the interests of children and adults who they come into contact with during their work. To fulfil these duties post holders are required to attend training and development to recognise the signs and symptoms of abuse or individuals at risk, to follow local and national policy relating a safeguarding practice and to report and act on concerns that they may have. RESPONSIBILITIES FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT Undertake the Trust Corporate and Directorate specific Induction and competency Programmes appropriate to role. ELECTRONIC ROSTERING Our Electronic Rostering system is key to ensuring staff are in the right place with the right skills at the right time, to ensure we carry out this responsibility effectively; all UHL staff must adhere to the rostering standards and guidelines set out in the Electronic Rostering Policy, pertaining to their role. Statement On The Recruitment Of Ex-Offenders As an organisation using the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to assess applicants’ suitability for positions of trust, the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust complies fully with the DBS Code of Practice and undertakes to treat all applicants for positions fairly. It undertakes not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a Disclosure on the basis of conviction or other information revealed. The University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust is committed to the fair treatment of its staff, potential staff or users of its services, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, responsibilities for dependants, age, physical/mental disability or offending background. We have a written policy on the recruitment of ex-offenders, which is made available to all Disclosure applicants at the outset of the recruitment process. We actively promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential and welcome applications from a wide range of candidates, including those with criminal records. We select all candidates for interview and appointment based on their skills, qualifications and experience. A Disclosure is only requested after a thorough risk assessment has indicated that one is both proportionate and relevant to the position concerned. For those positions where a Disclosure is required, all application forms, job adverts and application packs will contain a statement that a Disclosure will be requested in the event of the individual being offered the position. Where a Disclosure is to form part of the recruitment process, we encourage all applicants called for interview to provide details of their criminal record at an early stage in the application process. We request that this information is sent under separate, confidential cover, to a designated person within the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and we guarantee that this information is only seen by those who need to see it as part of the recruitment process. Unless the nature of the position allows the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust to ask questions about your entire criminal record we only ask about “unspent” convictions as defined in the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1970. We aim to ensure that all those in the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust who are involved in the recruitment process have been suitably trained to identify and assess the relevance and circumstances of offences. We also ensure that they have received appropriate guidance and training in the relevant legislation relating to the employment of ex-offenders, e.g. the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1970. At interview, or in a separate discussion, we ensure that an open and measured discussion takes place on the subject of any offences or other matter that might be relevant to the position. Failure to reveal information that is directly relevant to the position sought could lead to withdrawal of an offer of employment. We make every subject of a DBS Disclosure aware of the existence of the DBS Code of Practice and make a copy available on request. We undertake to discuss any matter revealed in a Disclosure with the person seeking the position before withdrawing a conditional offer of employment. Having a criminal record will not necessarily bar you from working with us. This will depend on the nature of the position and the circumstances and background of your offences. Post: Waiting List Co-ordinator Band: 2 Division/CBU: Planned / GI Medicine, Surgery & Urology Criteria Essential Desirable Stage Measured at A – application I – Interview T – Test Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s Values and Behaviours Interview Training & Qualifications Educated to GCSE/ O level including Maths & English NVQ in administration. Evidence of further educational development A Experience Previous experience in an administrative/clerical role. Experience of working within the NHS. HISS & Patient Centre experience. A Communication and relationship skills Excellent customer care skills Previous reception experience. I Planning and organisation skills Ability to work on own initiative Ability to manage own workload. Able to work under pressure to achieve multiple deadlines. I Physical skills Keyboard /computer skills Microsoft office A & I Other requirements specific to the role Enthusiastic and self-motivated. Conscientious Flexible working Willing to learn and commitment to provide an excellent service. I PERSON SPECIFICATION Equality and Diversity Able to demonstrate a commitment and understanding of the importance of treating all individuals with dignity and respect appropriate to their individual needs. A & I

Waiting List Coordiantor

NHS AfC: Band 2 Main area GastroenterologyGrade NHS AfC: Band 2Contract PermanentHours 37.5 hours per weekJob ref 358-1215797-CHU Site Cross siteTown LeicesterSalary £17,460 - £18,702 per annum pro rataClosing Today at 23:59

UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST

CHUGGS Clinical Management Group

Cancer, Haematology, Urology, Gastroenterology & General Surgery

Waiting List Coordinator

Agenda for Change: Band 2

Permanent Full Time 37.5hours

A position has arisen within a dynamic and fast paced Endoscopy Department. As a waiting list coordinator you will be a core part of the Cancer, Haematology, Urology, Gastroenterology and General Surgery (CHUGGs) Clinical Management Group team to facilitate patient pathways and support a positive patient experience. You will work closely with your Admin Manager to ensure delivery of high quality patient services.

We are looking to recruit staff who have values in line with our five Trust values. We are a large and busy healthcare provider and want staff who are resilient, focused and who have a ‘can do attitude’. We expect that you will be highly organised individual who is a high achiever, have a high level of energy and enthusiasm, a personality that is upbeat and motivated, with well-developed communication and relationships skills.

If you believe you have the skills, expertise and motivation to be part of a dynamic and forward-thinking team, please ensure you contact us for further information or apply for one of these jobs.

Please submit your application form without delay to avoid disappointment; we will close vacancies prior to the publishing closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Please check the email account (including your junk mail) that you supplied as part of your application on a regular basis following the closing date and throughout the recruitment process, as this is how we will communicate with you.

We are committed to delivering equality of opportunity for all of our service users, and for out staff. Our aim is to create a workplace in which discrimination is outlawed, and staff and service users are equally valued and supported.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Tier 2 Certificate of Sponsorship (formerly a Work Permit)

Applications from job seekers who require Tier 2 sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, non-EEA candidates may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled EU/EEA candidate is available to take up the post as the employing body is unlikely, in these circumstances, to satisfy the Resident Labour Market Test. The UK Border Agency requires employers to complete this test to show that no suitably qualified EEA or EU worker can fill the post. For further information please visit UK Border Agency website.

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Things that have happened

First of all I have left Kilimatinde! As I write this I am sitting on a bus to Arusha in the North. Not that the last 6 weeks has been hard work but now begins the holiday part of my trip; 9 days of safari and Zanzibar with Ro and then 5 days in Uganda seeing all my friends on a whistle-stop tour! In the last few weeks a fair few notable things have happened so I'll just flesh a few of them out here... One morning Ollie and I went in to do the paediatric ward round and found Mwaja (one of the Clinical Officers in the middle of a medicine degree) ready to do some minor surgery on a poor ten year old girl. Basically she'd managed to get a bit of wood buried in her leg and it needed to come out. Anyway, Mwaja being the top lad that he is got Ollie and I involved. I got a pair of sterile gloves and Ollie was in charge of shining the torch and dousing the wound with saline. Mwaja topped her leg up the brim with local anaesthetic and then I had a poke around inside with the forceps. However after a good poke I couldn't find any wood in there so Mwaja had a go. He found a couple of bits about the length of a match and four times as thick and when he drew them out the poor girl was hating it. But it wasn't over, Mwaja said that she could feel something right at the back of the leg too (the wound was next to the shin) and he thought he could feel something else with the forceps (but we couldn't see it). So he's probing away, manages to grab something fairly wide about 3 cm inside and starts to pull. Now this girl is fully crying and her mum comes over to, at first, comfort her, but then restrain her as Mwaja starts to pull harder. He's pulling and pulling and the girl is screaming now. I say "Mwaja, are you sure you're not pulling bone?". "Yes, the X-ray showed no fracture" he says as he pulls harder. And then suddenly, and this is no joke, a piece of wood about 1.5cm wide and 10cm long is being held in midair by Mwaja's forceps (I will upload a photo). Ollie looked like he was going to be sick and actually turned away and my forehead was covered in sweat. This little girls leg wasn't even 10cm in diameter, the piece of wood had travelled obliquely or it would have punched out the other side. Anyway Mwaja cleaned the wound out with saline and gauze, we packed it with iodine soaked gauze and that was that. (Well I say that was that, but we had to clean that wound and pack it with gauze everyday and fair enough she hated it everytime)  Something sad happened. Earlier that week Ollie and I were doing the paediatric ward round and then we heard a sound which triggers a running-to-have-a-look reflex in all humans but 1000x more in healthcare professionals. It was the sound of stridor - the sound you get when you are trying to inhale but your throat is too closed up to get a proper breath in. We rounded the corner and it was two kids, one baby and one two year old. In the UK this would be a proper emergency - at least 5 doctors would be working on each. These kids just had Ollie and I and a copy of the Oxford Clinical Handbook on Tropical Medicine. Top causes of stridor: something is pressing on the trachea (like a tumour) but unlikely in children; something is stuck in the trachea (like a piece of food) which is very likely in children but not two separate children at the same time; or a serious infection has caused the tissue around the trachea to swell up and close off the airway. This had been going on for a week, they hadn't swallowed anything, it had to be an infection. A mixed blessing because at least it was something we could do something about, but we had no way of working out which infection it was.  So we examined them as best we could but even this is fraught with difficulties because if you upset the child and they start crying then that can completely occlude the airway and that's death basically. In between coughing and gasping for air the two year old wasn't too bad, he was sitting up and eating rice and his vital signs weren't terrible. But the baby wasn't good at all, didn't have much of a stridor but that's a bad thing because it means they aren't able to take decent breaths anymore. Also the mum said they hadn't been able to breastfeed in a couple of days. We still didn't know and would have no way of finding out the cause. We had no ability to do bacterial cultures and some causes of this presentation are viral anyway. So we started broad spectrum IV antibiotics, gave them steroids to try and reduce the swelling in their throats and help them to breathe. Because the little one was so dehydrated they got fluids too. We came in the next morning and the baby had died overnight. And now two more children from the same household had arrived with the same condition. Their arrival was at least a little bit helpful because with them the underlying disease was easier to identify. Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, loud inspiratory stridor. It was whooping cough. So we checked over the new kids and got all three of them started on erythromycin - there is no cure for whooping cough but that is the best we've got. There is a vaccine for whooping cough, it's the P in DTP (Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis) and they have it out here too - I've been making babies cry with it for weeks now. But unfortunately this family live deep in the Rift Valley and hadn't managed to immunise their children. (As I left this morning all remaining children were alive and improving) Okay I'll end on something a bit, well alot lighter, but forgive me if it's just too an awkward juxtaposition to the above stuff. The boys from Leicester left me last week so I've been hanging out with the Germans girls every couple of days since then. On Saturday we went to find the centre of Tanzania! Sounds like it would be an epic journey from the 1800's but actually it was just ten minutes drive down the road. But it was more than that haha. Because the point that marks it is a stone marker on top of a massive rock on top of a hill covered in forest. So it ended up being another waterfall style trek; fighting our way through trees and undergrowth, scrambling up huge boulders and finding out own way. At one stage we lost sight of the marker for ages and so scrambled up another huge boulder to look for it and have lunch. This boulder had a full thickness crack along one side and what should we find living down there but hundreds of bats! Bats again I know, I'm obsessed with bats, but it was really cool seeing them in the daytime and so many of them! Anyway we saw where we had to go and with another half an hour of trying a couple of routes we finally made our way to the rock with the marker on top! Unfortunately there was no actual way to climb that huge rock, just to sheer and smooth. And so in the end we had to settle with being next to the centre of Tanzania (I mean it's pretty convenient the centre of Tanzania is on top of a rock and not say just in someone's mud hut, so who's to say we weren't on the centre).  Also Monday 1st May was a bank holiday here too. So to celebrate yet another day off I went to the village party at the local secondary school. Normally these events are incredibly dull. There is always a special guest, there is always the same formality of a dozen long speeches and lunch is always served really late when you're bored and starving. Luckily Monday was an exception, there was a special guest sure and lunch was late but the speeches were few and short in length and the morning was very interesting! It basically ended up being some sort of bizarre adult sports day with workers from the hospital versus the school staff versus the villagers. My first event was downing a beer which, as anyone who has seen me try, is something I cannot do. I was 5th out of five for that one. I also jumped on the hospital team for tug of war, finally an event I've been winning since Year Four. We lost that one too. Other notable events I didn't join in with were: chasing a chicken (felt bad for the kuku but the video is hilarious) and a race where you run the length of a football pitch, thread a needle and run back again (love the imagination with that one). I also had a laugh when the special guest arrived, they were just a representative from the local district authority. The workers wrote signs in swahili - "Welcome to Kilimatinde", "You are very welcome", etc. And then at the end - "When will employers stand up for workers rights?" Haha! Preach it brother! I'm planning to write another blog post called "Realities" but if you can't face another quite frankly fairly depressing entry then someone let me know.

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Leicester Travel Vaccination Clinic 

We offer the full range of travel vaccinations in Leicester, including yellow fever, rabies, typhoid, Japanese encephalitis, meningitis, cholera, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, tetanus, tick-borne encephalitis as well as malaria medication. TravelDoc™ is also an official Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre (YFVC), approved by NaTHNaC.

Know more: https://www.travel-doc.com/leicester-travel-vaccination-clinic/

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We offer the full range of travel vaccinations in Leicester, including yellow fever, rabies, typhoid, Japanese encephalitis, meningitis, cholera, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, tetanus, tick-borne encephalitis as well as malaria medication. TravelDoc™ is also an official Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre (YFVC), approved by NaTHNaC.

It is situated within two minutes walk from the train station. Street parking is also available and free for 3 hours. The travel clinic is also well connected by public transport.

Regent Street Clinic is regularly inspected by the Care Quality Commission and has a longstanding history of medical excellence, caring for private patients since its inauguration in 1998.

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Leicester Travel Vaccination Clinic 

We offer the full range of travel vaccinations in Leicester, including yellow fever, rabies, typhoid, Japanese encephalitis, meningitis, cholera, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, tetanus, tick-borne encephalitis as well as malaria medication. TravelDoc™ is also an official Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre (YFVC), approved by NaTHNaC. Know more: https://www.travel-doc.com/leicester-travel-vaccination-clinic/

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Leicester Travel Vaccination Clinic – affordable vaccines and same day service

We offer the full range of travel vaccinations in Leicester, including yellow fever, rabies, typhoid, Japanese encephalitis, meningitis, cholera, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, tetanus, tick-borne encephalitis as well as malaria medication. TravelDoc™ is also an official Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre (YFVC), approved by NaTHNaC.

Know more: https://www.travel-doc.com/leicester-travel-vaccination-clinic/

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Leicester Travel Vaccination Clinic

We offer the full range of travel vaccinations in Leicester, including yellow fever, rabies, typhoid, Japanese encephalitis, meningitis, cholera, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, tetanus, tick-borne encephalitis as well as malaria medication. TravelDoc™ is also an official Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre (YFVC), approved by NaTHNaC.

Know more: https://www.travel-doc.com/leicester-travel-vaccination-clinic/