MANAGING PARKING SNAGS IN THE TEACHING HOSPITALS:A CASE STUDY OF JINNAH HOSPITAL LAHORE

Abstract

Due to unrelenting increase in motor vehicles, Lahoreis facing an acute parking
scarcity. Parking plays a significant role in the service delivery of a hospital. Hospital is sensitive areas
of the city and any mismanagement such as in parking may carry serious repercussions. Medical staff,
students, patients, and visitors each has unique priority for parking, and having limited space
accommodating each group properly is a significant challenge. Parking problem is a common feature
in most of the teaching hospitals in Lahore. But, since most of the hospitals are old and lack sufficient
space to develop parking space in accordance with the contemporary mandatory provisions for
parking. Jinnah hospital, as one of the newly built teaching hospital is experiencing parking snags
which needs to be dealt on priority basis to improve service delivery of the hospital. The paper is an
attempt to highlight parking related issues and to suggest suitable measures to manage them.