THE DESIGNS PRINCIPALS OF THE DELIVERY WARDS AND HALLS IN THE IRAQI PRIVATE HOSPITALS

Abstract

The Private hospitals are important element of the organizational structure of the health services in Iraq. The private hospitals are suffering from several problems caused by weakness in design and construction as a consequence of absence of design standards, at the same time, their standards are different from those of government hospitals. Private hospitals as they are health care services contain group of divisions and services. The perfect design of hospitals taking into consideration achievement of the proper functional relations and saving a lot of spending on investing the areas but in the form that insure the performance of a practical function. including delivery wards and rooms, which are the subject of this research in studying its various requirements we have approached the special designs principals which contain the areas and dimensions suitable for the activities and the number of beds in the delivery hall and theater and adopting the one person room and suggestion of four replacements for the patient room and selecting the most suitable one according to the significance of the design