Driver outraged at hospital parking prices: people don’t come for walks or cafes



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The reader approached Delfi and resented the prices of the parking spaces installed in the Santara clinics of the Vilnius University Hospital, calling them inadequate.

As indicated on the santarosparkavimas.lt website, on sites P1, P2, P3, P5, P7 and P10 1 pm 7 am to 8 pm it costs 1 euro and from 8 pm to 7 pm. – € 0.2 At sites P8, P9 and P11, an hour costs € 0.6 or € 0.2 respectively. The price per day at all sites is 7.2 euros.

“There are reasonable questions, can the company do what it wants? Do Santara Clinics Solve Something and Who Benefits?

In this case, we are talking about hospitals! And this is a fundamental difference compared to other parking lots in Vilnius. People don’t come for walks or cafes. “They have no choice or alternative,” the man said.

He gave his personal example.

“The child is in the hospital, the parents need more time to be around (this is what the doctor advises after the operation). Near Santariškai street. 7 is Unipark, where even after 5-10 minutes you still have to pay 1 euro; this is the minimum rate and the only option.

And this is probably the most expensive parking lot in Vilnius for that time. We stayed in the hospital for just over an hour, we paid for 2 hours at a time. (2 euros), etc. For us, visits to a child in a few days have already cost about 16 euros for parking, this is not suitable.

Exactly the same is in Santariškių st. 2 to all homes. That’s what people say, that there is only one scandal in the Santariškės clinics, “said the man.

He also provided two receipts. One shows that by standing at 1 pm 7 min. pay 2 euros, another – for 25 minutes – 1 euro.

Provided in the contract

The parking lots in the medical town of Santariškės are managed by a specially established company, Santara Parkavimo paslaugos. Its shareholder Latuna and the Ministry of Health signed a concession agreement in 2017: it is planned to install 2,250 new parking spaces and renovate 500 existing ones.

According to data from the Registry of Legal Entities, the shareholder of the company Latuna, which supervises the parking lot of the Santara clinics, is another Unipark company. E. Šimkevičienė said that the price of the parking lot is foreseen in the concession contract signed in 2017.

The document indicates that from 7 am to 8 pm for visitors for parking until 1 pm you have to pay 0.6 euros, for parking from 1 to 2 hours. – 1.2 EUR for 2-3 hours – 1.8 EUR, etc.

From 8pm to 7pm. An appropriate price applies: until 1pm – 0.2 EUR, from 1pm to 2pm. – 0.4 EUR, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. – 0.6 EUR, etc.

The agreement signed in 2017 also provides for indexation, 35 percent. depending on the annual price increase and 65 percent. of annual wage growth. The visitor parking fee is calculated by rounding the indexed fee to 10 euro cents.

Unipark’s shareholder is Parkdema, which is managed by the Energy and Infrastructure SME Fund of Lords LB Asset Management and Modus Group. The Modus Group is owned by MG NL holding BV, registered in the Netherlands. According to the Dutch registry, the sole shareholder of this company is Kęstutis Martinkėnas.

Santara Clinics is one of the largest hospitals in Lithuania, providing the highest level of specialized personal health care services and conducting continuous pedagogical and scientific research work. The hospital is estimated to treat an average of around 1 million people a year. ambulatory and around 100 thousand. hospitalized patients, performed in approximately 2 million. research and more than 50 thousand. various complex operations.

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