HYDERABAD: People visiting the state-run Osmania General Hospital (OGH) are facing inconvenience due to the absence of parking facilities inside the premises.
Patients and attendants visiting the hospital are forced to park their vehicles outside the premises, which is causing traffic jams and halting traffic movement for hours.
“Vehicles parked haphazardly outside OGH have been a matter of concern for commuters, patients and attendants visiting the hospital on a daily basis,” Vinod, a shopkeeper in the area, told TOI.
Drawing attention to the worsening traffic situation, the Telangana Telugu Desam Party (TTDP) sought immediate intervention from state officials and hospital authorities and provision of parking facilities for those visiting the hospital.
“The general parking facility for the visiting patients and attendants has been removed. Prior to this, visitors were being allowed to park their vehicles in the premises of the old building and later the facility was moved to the new building, but now, even that is removed,’’ said Mohammed Ahmed, minority cell vice-president, GHMC, TTDP.
Meanwhile, patients expressed concern over the rules imposed by the hospital authorities for the people visiting the hospital and demanded that authorities allow their vehicles inside the premises.
“We are forced to park our vehicle outside and due to this motorists are being issued challans. Also, parking outside the premises is leading to traffic jams and obstructs ambulances. Thus, patients and attendants have to suffer a lot in the absence of a parking facility inside the hospital,” an attendant told TOI.
