Walk in vaccination booster in Phuket?

[Chongalulu]

I’m on holiday in Phuket (from Pak Chong ) and it’s 6 months since my 2nd Pfizer vaccination (I’m 69) . Is there anywhere I can get a walk in type booster while here ,or any other alternatives? I have all my documentation/passport.

[RubenRemus]

There is. Search this site for "Bang Sue" + vaccination and you'll find recent threads about it. There's a large center in Bangkok that has relatively easy drop in for those who can show they are 4-6 months since 2nd shot. 

[stevenl]

13 minutes ago, RubenRemus said:

There is. Search this site for "Bang Sue" + vaccination and you'll find recent threads about it. There's a large center in Bangkok that has relatively easy drop in for those who can show they are 4-6 months since 2nd shot. 

Bangkok, which part of Phuket is that?

[RubenRemus]

Sorry! Misread.

[XD1 at Phuket]

This is some information about "Walk in".

It is in Thai language. Please try.

I picked up this from

https://ภูเก็ตต้องชนะ.com/

 

[oldcpu]

I went to Patong Hospital yesterday (Wednesday) for a walk in vaccine jab.  Research the day prior indicated that one day a week (on Wednesdays) Patong Hospital will provide a walk in jab (of Pfizer) to the 1st 50 people who show up.  Vaccinations start around 08:30am , although obviously the hospital is open 24hrs/day.

 

So my wife and I got up early (in the far south of Phuket) and drove to Patong, arriving at the hospital at around 8am.  At that time there was lots of space in the car park (later when we left at around 09:30am the parking lot was overflowing).  

 

We were not the 1st there (I believe a couple of dozen people were there prior to us) but we did make it into the 1st 50 group and we did obtain our Pfizer jabs. 

 

My wife is Thai so she did all the talking with the nurses as we went from location to location (while we did all the paperwork, test, etc ... ).

 

- First step was a nurse gives one a blue piece of paper with a number on it. The nurse told my wife we should be in the 1st 50.

 

- The second step was to fill in an A4 piece of paper about allergies and such, entering one's name, passport info ... etc

 

- The third step was to stand in line to do a self administered blood pressure test ... where they have 2 machines, where one sits down, sticks one's arm into the machine, press a start button, and it then proceeds to measure one's blood pressure (it takes about a minute). If flashes the blood pressure on the machine and spits out a small rectangular white piece of paper with the blood pressure info, where one MUST be certain to take that paper.   I almost missed that step.

 

- The fourth step was a short stand in line to sit down in front of a row of Thai people who take the blue piece of paper, the white blood piece of paper, and the initial A4 sized paper, one's passport, and enter one's data into a database.  They then hand back the passport and the blue piece of paper that has the number.

 

- The fifth step was a wait (where they had about 30 chairs) for one's blue paper number or one's name to be called, where one then sits in front of a nurse, who asks some questions about previous vaccinations, one's height, one's weight.  For foreigners she gives the foreigner an invoice paper, where the foreigner has to take that to the cashier and pay 200 Thai baht (Thai people don't have to pay this).  The cashier hands back a paper, which one takes back to the above nurse.

 

- One then waits in another small area (less than 10 chairs) waiting for one's name (or number) to be called.

 

- After one's name is called, one goes into a small room and immediately receives the Pfizer jab.  ...  My having received both AstraZeneca and Moderna in the past, I have to say the actual 'getting jabbed' part was incredibly quick.

 

One is then done.  They did not ask us to hang around afterward, which surprised me.  But my wife and I, instead of leaving went to the Information desk and made certain our vaccination information made it into the Mor Prom app.  It was fortunate we did this, as my wife's information made it ok, but there was an issue with mine (some mistake made re: the passport # entry) and it did not show up as me being vaccinated. So between the "information desk" and the "fourth step line of people enter data into a database" we had that sorted, and my Pfizer jab now shows up in the Mor Prom app.

 

We were out of there by 09:30. ...  So in total we were at the hospital for 90 minutes to get the Pfizer jab.

 

As for side effects?  I am 68 years old.  Last night I had the chills and I was waking up constantly.  I have a mild 'caffeine withdrawal' type headache today, despite having 3 cups of coffee. I also feel a bit fatigued today.  This is the same sort of fatigue and headache I had after the Astra Zeneca jab, but no where near as bad as the strong symptoms I had from the Moderna jab, where the Moderna jab practically knocked me off me feet for almost two days with mild flu symptoms. 

 

My wife and I have two months of solid traveling in Europe and North America planned starting in a months time, so we decided to go for this Pfizer as a booster jab.   Hopefully it will help us not get as sick if we catch COVID during our travels.

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Edited July 7, 2022 by oldcpu