Outrage as patient fined for parking at hospital while receiving life-saving treatment days after Christmas

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A hospital patient has been left outraged after being slapped with a £30 fine while receiving life-saving treatment at Crosshouse Hospital.Kerigh Palmer, who attends the hospital's renal unit three times a week, was left stunned after she was wrongly fined for parking up three days after Christmas for vital dialysis treatment.Parking bays near the unit are allocated to renal patients but also display blue badge holder signs.

The land where patients were fined belongs to the health board and tickets are enforced by Ayrshire Road Alliance.This week, NHS Ayrshire & Arran bosses have apologised for the blunder.Kerigh, 45, from Stewarton said: "Including myself, a total of three renal patients were fined on the same day; it is outrageous."Dialysis can take several hours, on average about four-and-a-half hours each session including prep time.The Ayrshire Live app is available to download now.Get all the local news in your area – plus features, football news and the latest on the coronavirus crisis – at your fingertips 24/7.The free download features the latest breaking news and exclusive stories while you can customise your page with the sections that matter to you.The Ayrshire Live app is available to download now on iOS and Android."We are receiving gruelling treatment and we need to be able to park close enough to the unit so when we come off of the machines and feel like crap we can get back to our cars easily; not walk the entire length of the car park."Those bays are allocated to renal patients and say so along the road on great big yellow print."But behind the bays, attached to the railings, are the blue badge signs."When I first started going to Crosshouse for treatment in December 2020 staff also told me it was fine