Milpark Hospital Netcare????

Today I had to take a customer of mine to Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg.

Firstly there is hardly any handicapped parking for cars without handicapped stickers.  God help those of us who are temporarily handicapped or are transporting handicapped people.

Secondly, when one can actually get a wheelchair from a locked off space they are barely pushable.  The one chair was missing a footrest and the other had a flat tire, making pushing very difficult.  Then try and push the chair through a doorway which has a fat pillar in front of it!!!

Thirdly, the lift has four buttons.  0 for ground, m for mezzanine, 1 for First Floor and 2 for second floor.  Now worries so far, but when one gets off at 1 and thinks that one can just go down three steps to the mezzanine floor,  Har har.  No you have to get back into lift and press M.  Super!!  

With said limping wheelchair turn right and then turn left through a narrow doorway barely wide enough for the chair.  Then you walk 57 paces (approx 50m) and then you come to a carpet covered ramp branching off to the left.  Push limping chair with loads of energy.  The orthopedic surgeon is at the end of this ramp and along a passage of about 5m with a locked door which requires a person inside to release it.  Pusher has to reach over passenger and pull door towards one and then somehow hold door open so the wheelchair can be pushed through without injuring the passenger.

My conclusion is that this maze of long passages was designed (if that is what is called) by a drunken architect with the DT's.