DESIGNS PRINCIPLES OF THE WARDS AND HALLS OF BIRTH IN THE PRIVATE HOSPITALS IN IRAQ

Abstract

The private hospitals are integral and important part of public health services in Iraq, however, if not all suffer from problems of design and clear operational and random spaces in the selection of areas and the functional relationships because there is no basis to design and clear, leading to low efficiency in operation and performance of the hospital. The research aims to find the design principles of the wards and halls of birth in the private hospitals in Iraq would take into account the achievement of functional relations correctly and efficiently within the environmental and aesthetic considerations of encouraging the patient, and references to improve the services they provide. To achieve the aim of the research was a survey of a number of private hospitals and the study surveys conducted by the Ministry of Health and study the requirements of the wards and halls of birth to reach the design principles included deportation and areas suitable for events and the number of beds in the wards and halls of birth, and the adoption of single room with a bed and a single mother and a bed for the child and place of the person accompanying an area (14m2) minimum requirements of the room suitable for events, and a hall birth bed area (21m2) at a minimum, and to propose alternatives to the four patient rooms and six forms of planning of the wards and halls of birth and recommend their application by selecting the most appropriate and according to the particular design.