GENERAL HOSPITAL, BENIN CITY
GENERAL HOSPITAL, BENIN CITY
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Date
1986-07
Authors
OKOJIE, ENIOLA EBEMEATA
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Abstract
An hospital is an intergral part of a Social
and medical Organization, the function of which is
to provide for the population, complete health care
both curative and preventive and whose out-patient
services reach out to the farmily and its home environment.
The modern concept of a hospital is not only
for the treatment of the sick but a comprehensive
system of preventive and curative medicine and also
devoted to ambulatory and domicilliary causes.
General hospitals like other hospitals are
devoted solely to the prevention and cure of all
diseases except those that are not within their
scope and which therefore need services of bigger
hospitals.
Aims and Objectives.
To design an hospital of 200 beds that meets
the needs of the population of the immediate vicinity
and can be expanded to meet future needs.
To have various units working in conjunction
to accelerate the services needed.
To ensure smooth movement flow pattarns of
patients in the Out-Patient Department; also instead
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of multiplying the number of consulting rooms, they
could be designed in such way that two doctors can
work in one consulting room.
Emergency areas should be able to accomodate increased
and varied medical problems and most probably minor
surgery.
snerally the design of the Out-Patient Department
won't deviate totally from the conventional design
but useful chances would be made but from the
functional and aesthetic point of view.
As a contribution to architecture, the design
thesis is concerned with natural lighting and adequate
ventilation to reduce infection; also tne provision
of landscaped courtyards to provide visual comfort
and homelessness to the patients.
It is hoped that this architectura1 design
through the analysis carried out, and suitable
solutions achieved would make it a worthwhile exercise
Description
A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE
SCHOOL, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA,
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN
ARCHITECTURE (M.Sc. ARCHITECTURE
Keywords
GENERAL, HOSPITAL,, BENIN, CITY