A REDEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL FOR VOM GENERAL HOSPITAL

(A CASE STUDY OF JOS)

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Department of Environmental Design

ABSTRACT
All architecture proposes on effect on the human mind, not merely service to the human frame - JOUNRUSK1N The need to develop our hospitals to meet the growing health care need of our people cannot, at this point of our national development, be over emphasised. This basically is due to the threat of extinction posed to nan by diseases, some of which are termed incurable but of which patients at the same need some medical attention. Yet our hospitals arc in such a deplorable and pitiable state that one wonders at their ability to cure a single disease. This thesis examines the need for the redevelopment and improvement of our hospitals with special reference to Vom General Hospital in Vom, Jos, Plateau State. Vom General Hospital was built in the early part of this century (1922) by two British Missionaries. Rev. Dr. and Mrs P.W. Barnden. The hospital, located in Vom, was initially meant to cater for the health care need of the people of Vom and its surrounding environment but with the growing discontent for the poor services rendered by government, hospitals and the exorbitant rates charged by private clinics and also due to the awareness of their efficiency and the high quality services they render, people troop in from different parts of the country and the West African sub-region and the Cameroon to receive medical attention there. This calls for the need to redevelop and upgrade the standard of the hospital to meet the growing need of the people. The author of this thesis proposal has observed the absence of some vital infrastructural facilities in the hospital, of which this thesis examines the need to provide them. These include an up-to-date adjunct diagnostic facilities, maternity, emergency and multi-clinics and an improvement on nursing facilities (wards).