Thursday, November 26, 2009

Hospitals Patients Parking

I had gone to Apollo hospital on Mount Road, Teynampet, Chennai, India the other day to see a friend who was admitted there. The hospital boasts of top of the class medical facility and I am sure they do provide enough and more care for patients. There are about 200 rooms I suppose in the ground+4 floor hospital, I am sure. The number of patients that get treated there must be in thousands per day. I am supremely confident that the hospital management staff accordingly. There is never a moment where the patient is lacking in attention. If not the doctor it is the nurse, someone or the other is always around. The management has planned the operations to the T. Or have they. What the hospital lacks big time is parking facility for the people who come to visit the patients or accompany them. A hospital of this size has only around 50 parking slots roughly. And majority of those are reserved for doctors. When cost of care is around 10k for couple of xrays and a ct scan. And room rates at the level of 2 star hotels, why are the facilities substandard? Why can't, in this case Apollo and several other hospitals, malls etc provide sufficient parking facility. Why and how does the government even approve such buildings to come up. Corruption? Callous attitude? Ignorance? I fail to understand. Will our quality of life ever improve?  Let us hope the next generation has better quality of life.

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