My Wednesday Walk to get appointment for my son
Hello Cryptoworld!
Today Wednesday Walk, I went to a nearest hospital to try to get an appointment for my son. He has some coughing since a couple of weeks.
This is the first time I am trying to get appointment for him in the public hospital.
As I went last week for an appointment at Ruttonjee Hospital in Wanchai, I thought it will be the same process. But for any raison it is not the same way. They sent me to a little clinic to get an appointment.
The clinic where we went is Violet Peel Health Centre, at 5 minutes walking from the Hospital. I though we could get appointment today directly here, but the only thing they did was to put my son's information in the system. Then they gave a directory with phones to call for the appointment. Well, I knew it would be a kind of complicated, I did some calls to the nearby clinics...
But i hear always the same answer:
- For English press 2.
- Sorry there is no token available for appointment.
As I have the application I tried;
But this time I realised there was a problem. I double checked the information and everything was correct, my son's name, ID, date of birth...
I came back inside the hospital to ask what was the problem. I left my son waiting for me. But they asked for the ID. Then I came back to take my son. And when we enter to check the mistake they were already at lunch time. It was 1:00 PM. They told us to wait until 2:00 PM to check the issue.
Finally they checked and the mistake was from their side. The one who input first the information mistaken the day, he input 19 instead of 18. And that was the little mistake.
We left the clinic and will try later again to get an appointment for him. But it's kind of annoying as it's always the same answer:
No token available for appointment
I am thinking to another general hospital hopping to get an appointment the same day. The electronic system is just annoying because if no space available the system just answer it. Some years ago it was still possible to do an appointment directly in the clinic...
Well after this visit to the clinic. We walk over Wanchai. My son went at home and I went to a tutoring class.
In my way I took pictures over Wanchai.
Some one cover his bicycle to protect from raining.
There was some other bicyles.
Bicycles are very practical in Hong Kong, I really want to get one, my only concert is to get sweat always and arrive to any place completely wet. The weather is hot and humid.
I discovered also there is a Carnival ...
I have visited the Website and it looks very attractive and friendly to navigate.
It looks like they have a good guide for tourist activities.
I finish this post until here as later I would work in my daily Actifit report.
Thank you for your support!
Even here, having appointment in the public hospital is not that easy. You need to endure standing in long lines.
Hope you son is feeling better now. No more cough
Public system services are most of the time a pain to receive. But sometimes no choice.
Thank you for your comment @lhes
What a nightmare trying to arrange an appointment I hope you can get him an appointment soon
Yes, it’s kind of time consuming. But sometimes it’s necessary. If we get the appointment in another hospital, the next step is to wait around 3~4 hours. Otherwise just we look for the private service. It’s not so expensive than United States for example. But in this point of the bearish i am in trouble to use some coins…
Well lets see what we do today about that.
Thank for your encouragement @tattoodjay
Have a great day!
It's frustrating when you try to get an appointment and it is not possible to get.
I hope your son is not in urgency to have an appointment and he get well soon.
Have a great day!
I hope you could have booked, because I had the same problem before. that HA-go app always shows no spot available. I hope your son get well soon.
Thank you @georgehive, I tried to book in the app, but there is never spot available. I was expecting to go at Easter Hospital and try directly, but my son don't want to go, he say he is feeling better and the coughing is not that bad. Any way, at least I input his information is in the system for any other need of the service.