REDEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL FOR THE NATIONAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL, IGBOBI, LAGOS. (Towards p r o g r e s s i v e p a t i e n t care)
REDEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL FOR THE NATIONAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL, IGBOBI, LAGOS. (Towards p r o g r e s s i v e p a t i e n t care)
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1999-11
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AJAYI, ADEYEMI OLAMIDE
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It is said that a healthy nation is a wealthy nation'.
The wealth of the nation is in the health oF its human
resources. This health is managed or treated by hospitals,
clinics and other medical institutions, when it has been
impaired (either permanently or temporary) by any form of
illness or disease.
The health needs of the society are influenced by many
factors such as increased sophistication in scientific
knowledge that is technology and also a simultaneous increase
in the population size.
Hospitals in the country today especially the public
hospital are not presently equipped, to cater for the health
needs of the nations populace due to a decay of both
functional and physical structures, respectively. This is due
to the fact that most of them were built during the colonial
era.
The National Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi, Lagos was
built during that era, at the time of the second world war as
a rehabilitation center for the returnee war veterans whom had
all forms of traumatic and orthopaedic injuries. It has since
being upgraded to hospital status by the Federal Government.
This hospital which acts as a referral hospital to other
hospitals in the area of orthopaedics management and
treatment, has had some of its facilities upgraded haphazardly
within its initial layout, in an effort to improve the
situation, without proper consideration for inter-departmental
relationship, and circulation.
The purpose of this thesis work is to propose mainly a
redevelopment of the hospital with regards to the above stated
reasons and also providing an enabling environment for the
recovery of the patient, through the upgrading structurally,
of the diagnostic and treatment core and the in-patient core,
as these are the two most important areas to a patient in the
hospital.
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BEING A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE
SCHOOL
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR
THE AWARD OF MASTERS OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN
ARCHITECTURE
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY
ZARIA, NIGERIA
NOVEMBER, 1999
Keywords
REDEVELOPMENT,, PROPOSAL,, NATIONAL,, ORTHOPAEDIC,, HOSPITAL,, IGBOBI,, LAGOS., (Towards p r o g r e s s i v e p a t i e n t care)