Monday, December 12, 2011

Bathrooms of KAUH

Yes, you read that correctly. This is a post dedicated to the terrible bathrooms of KAUH. They disturb me to no end, as if medical school isn't enough to develop OCD habits.

King Abdulaziz University Hospital is 7 storey building (including the ground floor) + a basement. The higher density of students, staff and patients can be found on the ground floor till the fifth, as the basement is for labs and the 6th floor is administration.

There is always a ladies' room that is public and more prominent on each floor, then there are staff water closets that are usually locked/hidden. This is a survey of the most prominent ladies' room on each floor.

I believe that the least one can ask for in a restroom is a door you can shut, let alone lock, but then that's just me. In all 6 bathrooms, only 5 cubicles had doors that lock, as the rest won't even stay shut. Of these 5, 3 were in the same bathroom and one of those 3 was a traditional bathroom. Out 21 cubicles.

Ground Floor:
Ground floor

Oh look! No door! No lights in cubicles! And did I mention that some don't even flush?

Ground floor

First Floor:

First floor
The door is coming apart.

Second Floor:

second floor

Tissues, at least there will be no peeping.

Third Floor:
Third floor

The lock is there, but it doesn't work!

Fifth Floor:
Fourth floor

I guess by now you got a good idea of how things look. I'm not going to start on hygiene and how the floor is always wet. It baffles me how we got the canadian accreditation. We don't even have usable bathrooms!

P.S. Those are all phone photos, excuse the quality.

P.P.S. Did I mention that I once had to lock a cubicle door using adhesive tape? Yeah. I am not amused. Though looking back on it, it's kinda funny. But still! NOT AMUSING!

3 Halala for your thoughts:

KLO said...

This is pretty funny, but I'd be paranoid as well. They probably got the accreditation by telling the Canadians it's 7aram to enter the women's bathrooms.

Souma said...

KLO: Does that mean the men's bathrooms lock? The bastards =_="

MY SECRET CLOSET said...

I dunno y exactly, but once I read the title and saw the 1st pic, a smell similar to that smell of KAUH's toilets invaded my nose!!! It must be the deep bad impact they left in me.
hopefully these bathrooms r getting renewed as I've seen some constructors working on several ones.