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| Lack of parking space in GMC&H triggfers chaos | | |  KUNAL SHRIVATSA
JAMMU, Feb 18: 'Chaos' and 'Commotion' probably are not enough to describe the parking mess in one of the biggest hospitals in Jammu & Kashmir, the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H) Jammu.
Going by the parking disorder which this scribe came across today, it would be appropriate to say that one should think twice before embarking for a visit to the hospital as it is indeed an uphill task to locate a parking space inside GMC&H since every inch of the designated parking lots are crammed with all sorts of vehicles including scooters, motorcycles, auto rickshaws, cars, mini buses and ambulances.
For making an entry and later on parking his car, the Early Times (ET) scribe struggled hard as he had to maneuver a long queue of vehicles in front, to the left and right to reach a vacant parking space, however, there was hardly any vacant area.
After frenetic search to park his vehicle in GMC&H compound, this scribe was finally able to park his vehicle opposite 'Sulabh Shauchalya Complex' that too after waiting there for at least 10-15 minutes.
Leave aside the demarcated spaces to park the vehicles, even the interior roads inside the hospital are being used to halt vehicles on both sides due to which nearly one fourth of the space gets occupied.
The parking of vehicles on the narrow interior roads resultantly turns to be a source of obstruction to the free movement of the vehicles particularly ambulances which quite often carry critically ill or injured patients.
As the pictures of ET lensman are self speaking the haphazard parking of vehicles on both sides and in the middle of the interior roads almost makes impossible to reach the Emergency Wing in case of any urgency.
God forbids, if a vehicle carrying a patient with critical condition gets stuck in the traffic jam inside the hospital premises a precious human life could be lost, however, with the disarrayed traffic scenario it seems that the hospital authorities are waiting for such an incident to happen
Now if we talk of the main entry and exit gates of the hospital it was noticed that very few vehicle owners use the 'Out' gate to leave the hospital premises and instead are using the 'In' gate to make exits.
Neither the staff of the hospital nor the police personnel were visible to regularize the traffic at entry and exit points. |
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