Benefits
To you, your family and the local area.
Shorter Waiting Times
The new hospital is capable of handling an expected 50% attendance increase
State-of-the-art Facility
The new hospital will have 21st Century equipment and facilities.
Capable of Expansion
The hospital is designed to be capable of expansion from 120 beds to 200 beds.
Extra Income
Woody vegetative matter from excavation activities will be offered to affected land users to be used for charcoal burning to provide extra income.
The existing Shai-Osudoku District Hospital in Dodowa was established as a health centre in 1985. Attendance at the hospital has more than tripled from 13,080 to over 42,000 between 2009 and 2012. The Dodowa District Hospital is now helping solve the growing attendance crisis, providing faster and cheaper care for the Dodowa community. The facility is now the leading hospital in the region, serving a catchment area of 250,000 people.
Design
Each hospital has been adapted to suit the unique topography and geographical conditions of its location by a world class team of experts from the UK and Ghana.
The innovative design of the hospitals is aimed at providing a therapeutic environment to aid patient recovery while providing value for money by delivering hospitals which require minimal maintenance, have a low energy footprint and have the capacity for future expansion.
A comprehensive process of consultation with local landowners, farmers and other stakeholders was undertaken ahead of and throughout the hospital build process.
The new hospital has 21st Century equipment and facilities and is designed to be capable of expansion from 120 beds to 200 beds.
The goal is to support the sustainable advancement of healthcare in Ghana.
The goal is to support the sustainable advancement of healthcare in Ghana.
Dodowa District Hospital houses:
- Two operating theatres
- Theatre recovery unit
- Intensive care unit (ICU)
- Surgical wards (male and female)
- Medical wards (male and female)
- Accident and emergency wards
- Observation/out-patient ward
- Maternity, obstetrics / gynaecology ward
- Paediatric ward
- Public health unit
- Dental unit
- Radiology unit
- Pharmacy/dispensary
- Laboratory
- Blood bank
- Consulting rooms
- Reception/waiting area
- Records office
- Accommodation for core staff
- Conference and training facilities
- Kitchen, laundry
- Hospital stores
- Mortuary
- Maintenance unit/workshop
- Waste disposal unit
Bed Numbers
Adult and Paediatric Wards
- Maternity, Obstetrics and Gynecology Department – Two Wards and Delivery = 32 beds
- Male Surgical Ward = 14 beds
- Female Surgical Ward = 14 beds
- Pediatric Ward = 16 beds
- Male Medical Ward = 14 beds
- Female Medical Ward = 14 beds
- Theatre Recovery Beds = 4 beds
- Accident and Emergency = 6 bed (Triage)
- Outpatients = 6 bed (Observation)
- Mothers Hostel = 18 beds
- Total: 138 beds
- l L-shaped wards with central staff base supporting both wings
- l Mix of of private and open wards
- l Innovative central spine layout enables patients to look directly outside to therapeutic gardens and views beyond
- l Garden space defined for each ward
- l Variant for children
A strong, sustainable design concept based upon a series of distinct landscapes
Landscape Concept
'Care and Cure' concept employs international best practice for healthcare design incorporating therapeutic and functional garden spaces
- A therapeutic environment – buildings in a landscape
- Calming, relaxing and promoting healing
- Celebrating views of the hospital and capturing views of the local area
- Creating bespoke designs for each hospital responding to local environments using indigenous plants
- Using traditional medicinal plants and herbs
- ‘Woodland’ providing screening and shade
- ‘Plantation’ with trees creating shade whilst maintaining views through
- Formal gardens celebrating focal areas and entrances
- Private gardens for each ward where patients can convalesce, relax and meet relatives
- Open ‘Savannah’ areas providing longer views across the site and beyond
- Swales creating attractive and effective water courses managing water flows in rainy seasons
- Play areas for children
Hospital Progress
Keep up to date with Dodowa build progress
A group of 30+ representatives from a variety of media stations were given access to the Dodowa District Hospital site, as completion draws ever nearer. The programme director, as well as the site construction manager (both pictured below), were at hand to answer any questions that the media had. The successful event produced numerous positive reports, with nearly half of those that made it onto local stations presented in “AKAN”, a popular dialect with the locals.
NMSI provides a full design/build/equip/train service for the development of locally appropriate health-related infrastructure. NMSI brings to bear the expertise of award-winning experts in the field to provide the latest in innovation and design.
