A surgeon emerged from completing a ‘life-saving’ procedure to be told he would be slapped with a £70 fine for ‘parking on the wrong level’.
The fine then came despite NHS staff being exempt from parking charges at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, claims the consultant.
Dr Pratap Dutta, a consultant surgeon working at hospitals across Greater Manchester, was on call the weekend of June 11, and had to rush into the MRI to treat a car crash victim at around 10.20am,.
He arrived at the ‘very quiet’ car park and left his car on level zero, before heading to carry out surgery on the trauma patient inside the hospital. “I was covering the major trauma surgery patients, such as crash patients, for all the hospitals within Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust that morning,” he told the Manchester Evening News . “It has been ridiculously busy the last few weeks, there has been a huge backlog of cases in many areas.
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