Car parking take tops €1.4m at one hospital

PATIENTS and their families are being forced to pay almost €1.4 million in car park fees every year — the equivalent of €3,800 a day — at one of the country’s largest regional hospitals.

Senior HSE officials have confirmed that despite the public’s stricken financial circumstances, rates at Waterford Regional Hospital remain one of the most expensive in Ireland.

Over the past two years the major south-eastern regional facility has taken in almost €2.8 million in car park fees.