Injection or Wound Dressing at Home

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A short visit for a single job: one injection that a registered practitioner has prescribed IN WRITING, or one wound dressing on one site. The rule that does not bend: no injection is given without a valid written prescription, however routine it seems, however long you have been having it, and however inconvenient that is on a Sunday. Giving a prescription only medicine without one is an offence, and more usefully than that, a nurse who will bend the rule for you is a nurse who will bend it for somebody else. Now the part almost nobody prints, which is what happens to the needle. A used needle is not rubbish. It goes into a puncture resistant, leak proof sharps container that the nurse BRINGS and CARRIES BACK OUT, and from there to an authorised common bio-medical waste treatment facility. It never goes into your dustbin, never into a municipal bin, and is never left behind in your house wrapped in paper. This matters because a needle in household waste is how a sanitation worker with bare hands gets a needlestick injury, and that person did not consent to any part of your treatment. Soiled dressings leave the same way, in the yellow bag, under the same rules. That whole chain requires authorisation under the Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules 2016 and a signed agreement with a treatment facility. Neither is held yet, so not a single injection can lawfully be given from here today. That is the gate, and it is written here rather than glossed over. The nurse waits fifteen minutes after an injection before leaving. Serious reactions are rare and they are fast, and the specification requires in date adrenaline and the means to give it present on every visit where an injection is given. Where that kit is not present, the injection is not given. No arrival time is promised. You are told the day and a broad part of the day and nothing narrower, because no visit has ever run from here and a promise with no history behind it is a guess wearing a suit. Vitals Clinic at A.P. Colony is not open. There is no practitioner in post, no premises registration and no appointment book, and this page does not pretend otherwise. What is written here is the specification: the qualification the role requires, the register the person must appear on, and the licence the premises must hold. Booking opens when those exist, and not before.

• One prescribed injection, or one wound dressing on one site, per visit. A second dressing at the same visit is Rs 350 more, so Rs 700
• A valid written prescription is required for any injection. There is no exception to this
• Sterile single use syringe, needle, gloves and dressing pack, opened in front of you
• Every sharp carried back out in a puncture resistant container, for disposal through an authorised facility. Nothing sharp is left in your home
• The nurse waits 15 minutes after an injection, with in date adrenaline present, or the injection is not given
• Drug, dose, site and time written down and left with you
• Travel within 8 km of A.P. Colony, Gaya included. No arrival time promised