Bleeding 🩸 Heart ♥️ Alert: Just extricated my aged mother & aunt from the #ExpoCenter COVID vaccination 💉 experience as there was a much greater chance of getting run over by a wheel chair, suffocating or getting the virus 🦠 through the throng of disorganised people there 1/ 
The first few days were smooth because ruling party politicos & bureaucracy present & very few people came as rampant confusion on process. After registration, alerts as to date, location & also codes not received by many. So info through hearsay. We were registered at Health 2/
Dept on Birdwood Rd but told by many to stay away as they were in bad shape. Websites & info sources gave conflicting info. Then everyone started speaking of Expo Center & walk in facility. As a result everyone turned up today (even w/out registration). Turns out other places 3/
like Birdwood never operationalised as all pressure put on Expo & that too w/out any filtering through registration & thus no control. This too could be tackled through more staff & systems but it appears they did not get upgraded. No system to make queues, no token system 4/
no functional help desk, no one seemingly in-charge, no signboards, shortage of wheelchairs, often aggressive civil defence staff almost running over people, shouting, bottlenecks at narrow entrance, entrance also being used as exit, paltry and surly staff of form fillers 5/
no clarity as to process, no bathroom so some snr citizens had 2 turn back. Essentially chaos. People jostling and pushing. A narrow gate at the end of hall that periodically opened & all the multiple people at front rushed it and some literally squeeze through. Some Terminals 6/
halfway but unclear what to do there after initial slowly hand filled form. Desultory cops, civil defense people standing around unhelpfully. No system to get wheelchair. I tried for a long time. Similar chaos, throngs, pushing outside main entrance to hall just described. Big 7/
chance of old people getting hurt & many of them very fragile. 1.5 hrs into the process we gave up & somehow squeezed out. We tried Birdwood but told they never got operationalised. Why couldn’t operation be spread out? Why open it w/out meeting of registration process? Select 8/
people knew of Expo & made the most of first few days with thin crowds. Photo ops, tall claims, statements of triumph. Then seeming abandonment. So many obvious issues here. Can be quickly fixed. But I saw neither order, nor authority nor ownership. No favor if this done 9/
right. That’s what govts for & we pay taxes for this. One would have still praised. But this as many will see already unraveling. Time to still step in and rescue. More convenient of course to deem what I report as propaganda & blame this on previous govts @GovtofPunjabPK 10/10
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