Initial Medical at start of RT

[craigshuts]

What are all the injections for? and how do you know whether you need them?

[Deadhead]

Tetanus (I'm guessing), especially as the odds of cutting yourself on something rusty are fairly high in this sort of career.

Boosters for anything you were vaccinated against as a child (my guess here is simply to make sure everybody is immune. Otherwise a disease could sweep through everybody)

Plus possibly things like Hep A, Hep B, Yellow fever. All diseases you could encounter whilst 'out and about' as it were.

[mancuniankid]

Hankins if you havn't had your BCG yet you will proberbly have 2 more needles. 1 to see if you need it(goes in your forearm) and if you do (need it) the actual BCG itself.

Just to let you know my arm still hurts now, after 2 weeks

[Nickosx]

Some of the lads got BCG's and were still complaining about sore arms weeks after, i think the main ones were the Hep A+B and tetanus though