Conventional wisdom is that a room is for storage and a door is for closing the entrance to a room. However hospital employees are innovative. It is their ability to think out of the box that makes civic hospitals different. Here is an example.
The image shows a metal grill door (yellow arrow) in front, behind which is a wooden door (red arrow) with glass panes (black arrow). The idea of putting the grill door was to provide security. The glass panes could be broken by anyone, and a small person could slip in, steal things and get away. The glass panes were sometimes broken, and people peeped in, which could be quite embarrassing at times for the patients inside. The innovators have put detachable tops of two patient shifting trolleys (green arrows) between the wooden door and the grill door. This has achieved a number of things at one go.
- Space is found for storage of those trolley tops. As everyone knows, space is very difficult to find in this city.
- The glass panes are protected. No one can break them with solid trolley tops in front of them.
- Thieves are kept at bay. If they try to steal despite this measure, they will be taught a lesson. If you note carefully, the trolley tops are leaning on the grill door a little. Which means if an unsuspecting thief manages to open the grill door, the trolley tops will fall on his head.
(I cannot say if the innovators had all of these points in mind when they did this. This is how the things appear to me.)
