Parking at the Day Care Unit, which lies at the back of Mater Dei Hospital, is indeed an incredibly complicated affair.

One first arrives at the front office, where one is directed to a little room near the general parking area. There, one is asked to drive to the Day Care Unit to inquire about free parking spaces.

If any are at all available, one is redirected to the small room by the general car park, where one is made to fill in a form including the car registration number and the date of parking, and time limit, against a payment of €2.

One then returns to the Day Care Unit to seek one’s parking space after placing the filled-in form on the car dashboard.

Indeed, very complicated. And probably intended to ward off sundry parked cars outside the Day Care Unit.

That is an unnecessarily bad start to a Day Care Unit visit for a short-term patient.

The alternative is to use the general underground car park and walk all the way through the long hospital corridors up to the Day Care Unit. An ordeal for partly disabled visitors.