GENERAL HOSPITAL, ABUJA
GENERAL HOSPITAL, ABUJA
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Date
1988-07
Authors
ODUMAH, BASIL ELUOJO
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Abstract
A hospital is an integral part of a social and medical
organisation, the function of which is to provide for the population,
complete health care both curative and preventive and outpatient
services reach out to the family and its home
environment. From the modern point of view, the hospital is not
only for treatment of the sick but a comprehensive system of
preventive and curative medicine and also devoted to ambulatory
and domiciliary cases.
The General hospital is one that is organised to deal with
a variety of conditions of illness needing specialised skills or
equipment that cannot economically be provided in the patients
home or in small medical centres in the community. It brings
together in a concentrated form most of the specialist services
and it provides care for both impatient and out patients.
Hospital esthetics cannot be dealt with in the spirit of
mere decorative embellishment. In good hospital architecture,
the esthetic and the function unite to contribute to the well
being of both patient and staff. The esthetic, then is also a
function of the hospital. Base on this the contiguity approach
is being adopted.
As a contribution to architecture, the design thesis is
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concerned at improving the circulation pattern which is a very
important factor in a hospital, by having various units working
in conduction to accelerate the services needed with adequate
provision for natural lighting and ventilation to reduce
infestation and for maximum comfort.
The main sections of the hospital are classified into two,
these are: OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT and INPATIENT. Departments of
the above include Medicine, Surgery, Orthopaedics, Obstetrics and
Gynaecology, Pathology, Radiology and ENT (ear, nose and throat).On the macro level the master plan consist of the main hospital, auxilliary services, medical school, Doctors1 residence,
students' hostels, etc.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE
POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE
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GENERAL, HOSPITAL, ABUJA