Cape Breton cancer studious fed adult with parking tickets handed out during chemo

February 04, 2020
Health Care

A Cape Breton cancer studious says he’s had adequate with the parking tickets he’s received while removing chemotherapy.

Ron MacDonald has kidney and lung cancer. In a final 4 months, he’s perceived 4 tickets for parking illegally outward a Cape Breton Cancer Centre, that is during a informal sanatorium in Sydney.

“There is no reason for it, it’s overkill,” pronounced MacDonald.

He pronounced he customarily parks his car in a no-parking zone close to a cancer centre since he is too diseased to travel farther.

MacDonald says there are customarily 10 parking spots accessible outward a Cape Breton Cancer Centre, though they are customarily full. (Tom Ayers/CBC)

MacDonald pronounced he understands tickets are released for many parking violations, though he pronounced it’s unfair in this case.

“You’re giving a $25 sheet to a cancer studious that’s pang financially,” he said.

MacDonald pronounced he’s already struggling to compensate for additional remedy and reserve for his treatment, and finds it tough to trust he’s also being penalized for parking while undergoing treatment.

The Nova Scotia Health Authority declined an talk with CBC News, though pronounced in an email that additional parking is accessible for cancer patients within a staff “preferred parking” lot.

The management pronounced 22 parking spots are designated privately for cancer patients. It pronounced parking passes are accessible for cancer patients, permitting them to park in a designated spaces, or a other lots during a informal hospital.

It remarkable there is also a studious drop-off area during a opening to a cancer centre.

The NSHA pronounced parking is an ongoing plea during a hospital.

It pronounced a trade impact and parking investigate will be carried out as partial of a Cape Breton medical redevelopment project, that will embody a new cancer centre.