Vaccinated!!!

The beaurocracy is an astonishing thing. It rejects the Newton’s third law. It has such fancy ways in which really nobody gains anything, surprisingly not even corruption sometimes.

Requirement:
There is a mandatory requirement to get yellow fever vaccination in case you wish to go to countries with the yellow fever risk. Else when you come back you shall be quarantined and will be put up in the hospital captivity for 7 days.

Ordeal:
This is India and an age of Jugad. So hence we thought us`ll manage…

So three gleeful fresh MBA`s with air in their hair and sand on their feet went to find out how do get oneself punctured and move closer to the countries of our dreams. We met with an absolute uninformation.Which is still ok but then if you ask somebody they can tell you versions which motivates you so much that you say “come wat may”. So we were not just motivated...but determined and disciplined. We used our status and sent an office boy to get ourselves registered for the shot. Interestingly the registration is to be done at 5 am, so that u can forward ur Arm and say “Come’ on baby gimme the shot“ in the evening.
 And as told after registration we went to try our luck at 12 in the afternoon. Right in front of the Arrival Gate. (Of the new flashy international Airport) there is a Tinshed.With the Airport Canteen toilet board painted on the other side by “Yellow Fever Vaccination Center”. Trust me rural pulse polio drop centers will look better than that. But then you can’t fight the system so we stood in line.
 Haggled for our No. Realize that they give only 40shots a day. I mean LOGIC???..but that’s how it is ..only 40 shots..no it’s not free..no you can’t pay more and get it done..no if you are in a hurry then that’s only your problem. Not even if you reach in time you can get it done.40 means 40 n rest of the reason can go to hell..I guess it’s a measure the government is utilizing to restrict the brain drain. But dude IIT`ians goes to Amerika for Ph D. Why stop people who want to go to Kenya and Madagascar.


You are supposed to register for it at 6 am. Now the registration sheet is actually just a old cardboard sheet..which somebody has kept hanging outside the door. Actually it looks more like a dogs beware kinda thing but then what the heck. We as ardent and stubborn prototypes so we reached at sharp 5.15 am. AND surprise! Surprise! Surprise!..we were 40th ,41st and 42nd. I mean people gimme a break.
 Then we reached again. More determined to get poked. Stayed and shifted in the lines. sometimes haggled without lines and eventually used the “foot in the door” policy quite literally.

And here it was. Our prize possession..A needle A vial and a person who called himself Doctor.(certified).God knows about what was there in the vial but the certificate he gave me after that is definitely yellow.


And Alas I am vaccinated..!!! and feels like a War hero 