Four-storey privatised car park proposed for Sibu Hospital

SIBU: A four- storey car park with about 1,000 parking bays has been proposed to ease parking woes at Sibu Hospital.

Sibu Hospital director Dr Ngian Hie Ung said the proposed privatised project to be located near the hospital’s canteen has yet to be approved.

She said the proposal was submitted to the Ministry of Health (MOH) recently.

“It’s a privatised project, meaning fully built and operated by a private company which will charge for parking.

“The company will charge motorists for parking until the building is handed over to the hospital,” Dr Ngian told reporters on the sidelines

It’s a privatised project, meaning fully built and operated by a private company which will charge for parking.

of a press conference on promoting breastfeeding in Sibu yesterday.

The hospital currently has about 600 parking bays which are acutely insufficient.

On whether the proposed carpark will solve the parking woe, she said: “In the many years to come, it won’t because the hospital has 2,000 staff and at any one time, we have about 1,000 working.

“As for patient load per day – inpatients are around 450; outpatients around 300 to 400 and emergency about 200. So, it only helps to ease some.”

Dr Ngian figured the best solution in the long-run would be good public transport.

Asked why certain indiscriminately parked cars were clamped, she explained certain routes were designated as clamping zones for emergency reasons.

“That means – it is strictly no parking along these routes otherwise they will block the ambulance route. In case there is an emergency, there will be problem.

“We do not wish to see such situation arising which is why we enforced that (clamping),” she explained, adding that there are charges for clamping.

Dr Ngian Hie Ung, Sibu Hospital director