Parking fees or no parking fees at hospital car parks?

The car parking at the hospital's parking lots should be chargeable with due consideration on fairness and reality.

The health authority (or the government) should work out an appropriate policy on this matter via the help of Parking Management experts from DBKK/JKR/NGOs.

One of the ways to relieve the pressure of car parking requirement is to work closely with the public transporter to serve the visitors in the hospital by minimising their need to bring their vehicles along.

All the authority need is determination to solve the problem. The public is eagerly waiting for their actions.

Car park closure angers visitors, patients

Car park closure angers visitors, patients

Just based on the report, I think the customer of SMC shouldn't be mad on DBKK for issuing the stop order as there are laws to comply for every body regardless of their status (ideally). The action of DBKK may be viewed as 'inhuman' but they are  just trying to carry out their responsibility.


The chaos in fact all originated from the day the now demolished tower block of QEH which declared unsafe in November of 2008. The SMC is considered the 'victim' and the 'beneficiary' of the declaration. As 'Beneficiary', it is sold at a good price to the government and the shareholders of SMC are all laughing their way to the bank, 'Victim' is their customers are suffering with government hospital patients jamming into the same hospital complex and therefore all the chaos and mess.


All in all, the people are the losers.


If people wanted to look for scapegoat, the government is likely be the one as QEH had been neglected during those politicking years between the 80s and 90s. Then, even more unforgivable was that the continuance of the negligence after BN re-took Sabah.


However, what's happened already happened, what we want now is the government swiftly rectify all these problems in the shortest time possible.


People should be patient and sacrifice for another few more months or a year or two (if my observation is not wrong) before things progressed and improved.


Meanwhile, people should write in or voice out to the various channels to tell the government of their grievances on the health care services in Sabah starting from the QEH.


We must start our concern from the 60 state Assemblymen and 25 Members of Parliament.


Have they collectively passed a resolution in the state assembly for our concern on the medical service in Sabah yet?