The Prime Minister has given instructions for the parking fee structure at Mater Dei Hospital to be reviewed, The Times has learnt.
The issue was raised during Monday's Cabinet meeting, sources said.
During the meeting, Dr Gonzi instructed Health Minister Louis Deguara and Finance Ministry Parliamentary Secretary Tonio Fenech to come up with proposals and solutions aimed at improving the efficacy of the traffic flow at the new hospital and to find a more decent parking fee structure.
The parking issue was raised by Dr Deguara yesterday as one of the teething troubles at the new hospital.
Speaking at the main reception area of Mater Dei Hospital on the final day of migration, Dr Deguara said discussions were under way with the parking provider to find tailor-made solutions for the different types of hospital visitors.
Patients who receive day treatment - like renal patients - were given free parking passes while the staff was paying the same rate as it did at St Luke's Hospital.
This left a third category which includes people with outpatient appointments and relatives who visit patients, who are paying up to Lm3 depending on the length of their stay. A second teething problem was a higher demand for staff meals, which meant that the canteen was being innundated with clients during break.
A third issue was that the patient entertainment system still had to be launched.
These problems were not prejudicing hospital operations or patient safety, the minister said.
Inpatient migration was completed 24 hours earlier than the originally planned 10 days, he said, adding that this was due to the well laid-out plans, and the motivated workforce and volunteers who were working very hard to keep things moving.
Some 400 patients have been transferred from St Luke's to Mater Dei over the past nine days.
Patient safety was not compromised, Dr Deguara said, explaining that every patient recovering in the Intensive Therapy Unit was accompanied to the hospital by two ITU nurses and an anaesthesiologist in case of complications.
The migration had not been an easy process and the demand for services at the new hospital was high from the very beginning.
In the first 36 hours that the Admissions and Emergency Department was operational, the Pneumatic Tube System - which is used to deliver small objects, like blood vials, from one part of the hospital to another - was used almost 2,000 times.
Dr Deguara said no final decision about the future of St Luke's Hospital had been taken yet.
For now the spare capacity would be used for contingencies, like a pandemic flu situation. The hospital is accommodating social cases until an alternative place is found for them.