ARCHITECURAL RESPONSE TO EMERGENCY CARE IN THE DESIGN OF ABUJA GENERAL HOSPITAL

📄 Project Abstract

Emergency care has been a vital part of Public Health supporting any thriving society for as long as hospital has been in existence. More than 960 years later, such influence is still apparent and is regarded as the front gate demonstrating capacity and capability of medical infrastructure in providing prompt and acute medical relief of threat to health. Such capacity and capability is considered to have immense contribution when delivered efficiently to reduction of needless and preventable deaths in General Hospitals across the broad spectrum of public health and wellness. Contextualizing this situation to the Nigerian Secondary health cannot be over-emphasized. Four General Hospitals were visited as case studies across the six local government area of the FCT, Abuja to investigate the current trend in Emergency care in General Hospitals. The cases visited included Asokoro, Wuse, Kuje and Kwali General Hospitals. Data from the aforementioned cases were collected via semi structured i...