I WRITE to your paper for readers' thoughts on the car parking at Orange hospital.
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As we all know most operations carried out are at this hospital which services not only the good folk of Orange but many other central west towns also.
Recently I have been taking my wife to the Orange hospital for chemotherapy and this was the first time I had to visit the new hospital.
However on my very first trip I could not find an empty car park space either at the front or the back of the hospital.
We ended up parking way out the back at the Bloomfield golf clubhouse and we made the long trek over to the oncology unit.
Her treatment on this occasion took over three hours and we left at around 6.15pm on a cold and freezing June night.
I did the right thing and wrote to the director of nursing and sent a copy to Andrew Gee MP. Both have replied to my concerns however the one from the director of nursing was less than satisfactory and I have raised this with Andrew Gee also.
The facts are the facts. It is a wonderful new hospital with wonderful staff. As raised in my letters it appears the car parking has been grossly underestimated.
I would not be far wrong in suggesting that a lot of these car parking spots are taken up with staff members who have no alternative, given that the hospital is about four kilometers from Summer Street.
That then leaves only a small amount of car parks for visitors and people seeking treatment.
We as a community, whether you live in Parkes, Forbes or Orange itself, including those respective councils, should rally our respective MPs to have this blight on a wonderful hospital rectified.
We all know that you have to pay for parking when you visit any Sydney hospital, but in my case I am only too happy to pay for a spot near Westmead where my wife is getting further treatment.
Surely a multistorey car park at the back of the hospital could be built in a short space of time and people would have to pay to use it, which in turn defrays the costs of building it.
I am sure people would be happy to pay if they knew there was a spot available and more importantly put up with the inconvenience while building it takes place.
Dave Wilson, Parkes