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If you’re going to park at Surrey Memorial Hospital or Abbotsford Regional Hospital, do not forget to plug the meter. Probably take care at Royal Columbian, too — they’re not terribly lenient there.

Those are among the key take-aways from a batch of fresh figures Postmedia obtained from the Provincial Health Services Authority on ticketing practices at Fraser and Vancouver Coastal health facilities in the 2018-19 fiscal year.

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The figures suggest particularly diligent patrolling of Surrey and Abbotsford parking lots. Surrey Memorial had 12,332 tickets issued that year and 12,198 were issued at Abbotsford Regional. That dwarfed Richmond hospital’s 4,908 tickets, Royal Columbian’s 3,117 and Langley Memorial’s 2,551.

Notably absent among the top five is the heavily used Vancouver General Hospital, where just 1,506 drivers were ticketed. However, Provincial Health Services Authority spokesman Vincent Chou said Vancouver General and Royal Columbian each have at least one gated parking facility with an attendant in an exit booth, which leads to far fewer tickets being issued at those busy hospitals.