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Excerpt
from article:
"With
an interest by local governments in improving the health and
welfare of their citizens, the design and construction of
hospital and healthcare facilities is a growth industry in the
developing world. Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia, among
other regions, have seen enormous growth in this area. This
growth has centered on efforts to expand both primary as well as
tertiary care to growing urban and rural populations. These
endeavors present difficult challenges due to a lack of public
infrastructure and technical expertise, but can also provide
enormous opportunities for both service providers as well as the
local populations, due to increased efforts on the part of local
governments and non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) to
provide nationwide medical coverage. The theatre of hospital
design, however, cannot simply involve transplanting Western
design principles to these countries. It must instead involve a
fundamentally different, more flexible style of planning and
design which can adapt to the different environmental, social,
and political situations of these regions...”
" Hospital Design in the Developing World"
©William N. Bernstein, LEED®AP, AIA, and Manu Venkat,
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