Suggestion to Hospitals on Removing Shoes/Chappals

Our hospitals are well equipped with test & diagnostic equipments. The wards and all premises are kept neat, clean , tidy by constant sweeping, cleaning and mopping.
To maintain the cleanliness especially in critical areas like ICU, ICCU, OT, equipment rooms, vaults, cabins etc. Patients are requested to remove shoes/chappals/footwear. In additioin patients have to remove the footwear whenevr doctors want to examine the patients on bed or dentists chairs etc. in their consulting rooms.
Thus in a big hospital, patients (least) and his accompanying members have to remove footwear on many occasions, many times. On this account, to enforce the cleanliness rules, hospital staff also has to keep constant watch on this aspect.
In this connection I would like to suggest that as we do in the places of religious worship, all visitors and patients may be asked to deposit their footwear at the hospital entrance lounge, where there will be an arranged footwear depositry.
This will keep the hospital clean and will save the visitors from footwear changingon-off repeatedly during their course of medical work.