Using an ambulance

Some years ago my wife suffered a stroke which affected her right leg, arm and speech. Every now and then I have to take her to St Luke's Hospital as an outpatient.

If I do not use an ambulance - which up to now I do not - it means that after I manage to help her into my car and drive her to St Luke's Hospital I have to double park the car as near as possible to the appointed clinic, borrow a wheelchair, leave her alone somewhere inside the hospital and try to find somewhere inside the hospital or all over Guardamangia for parking room, always ending up by Ta' Braxia cemetery in Pietà.

For a man of 77 years it means that I have to walk almost a mile, go up that steep hill in Guardamangia and repeat the ordeal when we finish.

I beg the hospital superintendent or whoever is responsible and reading this letter, to reserve an area inside St Luke's Hospital exclusively for vehicles like mine which have a blue card.

Anyone could be in this dilemma sooner or later and there are many others like us. I am after all saving the use of an ambulance, as the government prefers.