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Garowe General Hospital
Project description:
On behalf of UNICEF a design proposal was made for the Garowe General Hospital in Puntland with APC Architectural Pioneering Consultants. The design started from the most broad view possible in order to create a practical, user-oriented, sustainable and maintainable structure. The regional building culture was also taken into account, with a strong focus on traditional low-rise buildings with courtyards, which are used for all kinds of daily home activities, but also offer security and privacy.
For the proposed design, the idea was to merge a series of courtyards to create a central circulation corridor linked to a number of rectangular building blocks.
The simplicity of this organizational principle is suitable for the different functional units, and allows expansion in the future as the need for services grows.
The ground floor offers services that should be easily accessible such as the emergency department, medical imaging, operating theaters, polyclinical units,…. On the first floor, the patient rooms are accommodated, offering more privacy but also providing views of the surrounding landscape, as well as contact with other patients.
As a technical design engineering office, it is of the utmost importance to understand what purpose and for whom a building serves when determining the right energy solution. In hospitals, residential care centers and psychiatric institutions, the comfort, well-being and safety of the patient or resident is central. In addition, a cost-effective, energy-conscious, sustainable and efficient design of the technical installations was chosen. This means equipment that is sound and robust, but there must also be sufficient availability of local expertise, materials and ease of operation and after service maintenance.
As a start, various dynamic simulations were performed to determine canopies, recessed windows, external sun protection and the potential of natural ventilation in order to obtain an optimization of the architecture and the energetic needs of the building in order to keep the operating costs as low as possible.
As we have already stated, user comfort, well-being and safety take precedence and as such a special generator has been included in the design to supply all facilities in the event of a mains power failure. Uninterruptible power supplies were also provided for necessary equipment (clinical, IT,…) to bridge the time until the emergency generators starts. The combination of the existing electricity grid, which is mainly supplied by wind energy, and its own generators ensure a stable electricity grid.
To illuminate the most important areas of the hospital environment, easy-to-maintain luminaires with high efficiency, energy-efficient / LED luminaires with a long lifespan were chosen. The brands and properties were checked against the brands that are available in Somalia.
Two levels of climate control are used for hospital design:
- HVAC-controlled areas (air-conditioned) such as operating theaters, sterile rooms, laboratories, medical imaging, … (Treatment of fresh air to be determined by users)
- Mechanical ventilation in waiting areas and patient rooms.
The site cannot rely on a centralized sewage system. This resulted in a wastewater treatment system consisting of settling tanks, aeration tanks and disinfection tanks. The treated water is used to supply a local water feature. Special attention has been paid to the operation of the system by local less educated people. Good management is important because the filtering out of residues from medicines can have an influence on the processing bacteria.
In this way, the site can operate completely autonomously in terms of water management.
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Project description:
On behalf of UNICEF a design proposal was made for the Garowe General Hospital in Puntland with APC Architectural Pioneering Consultants. The design started from the most broad view possible in order to create a practical, user-oriented, sustainable and maintainable structure. The regional building culture was also taken into account, with a strong focus on traditional low-rise buildings with courtyards, which are used for all kinds of daily home activities, but also offer security and privacy.
For the proposed design, the idea was to merge a series of courtyards to create a central circulation corridor linked to a number of rectangular building blocks.
The simplicity of this organizational principle is suitable for the different functional units, and allows expansion in the future as the need for services grows.
The ground floor offers services that should be easily accessible such as the emergency department, medical imaging, operating theaters, polyclinical units,…. On the first floor, the patient rooms are accommodated, offering more privacy but also providing views of the surrounding landscape, as well as contact with other patients.
As a technical design engineering office, it is of the utmost importance to understand what purpose and for whom a building serves when determining the right energy solution. In hospitals, residential care centers and psychiatric institutions, the comfort, well-being and safety of the patient or resident is central. In addition, a cost-effective, energy-conscious, sustainable and efficient design of the technical installations was chosen. This means equipment that is sound and robust, but there must also be sufficient availability of local expertise, materials and ease of operation and after service maintenance.
As a start, various dynamic simulations were performed to determine canopies, recessed windows, external sun protection and the potential of natural ventilation in order to obtain an optimization of the architecture and the energetic needs of the building in order to keep the operating costs as low as possible.
As we have already stated, user comfort, well-being and safety take precedence and as such a special generator has been included in the design to supply all facilities in the event of a mains power failure. Uninterruptible power supplies were also provided for necessary equipment (clinical, IT,…) to bridge the time until the emergency generators starts. The combination of the existing electricity grid, which is mainly supplied by wind energy, and its own generators ensure a stable electricity grid.
To illuminate the most important areas of the hospital environment, easy-to-maintain luminaires with high efficiency, energy-efficient / LED luminaires with a long lifespan were chosen. The brands and properties were checked against the brands that are available in Somalia.
Two levels of climate control are used for hospital design:
The main water source is supplied via deep wells as no reliable water supply can be provided via external utilities. The water quality parameters were examined, after which a water treatment installation was dimensioned accordingly. In this way, the very salty pumper water is desalinated and the organic components are removed. Storage capacity is provided on the site for the treated water, so that the installation does not have to be dimensioned at a peak flow rate. The entire installation was provided to be fit into a ship’s container so that specialised work on site is reduced to a minimum.
- HVAC-controlled areas (air-conditioned) such as operating theaters, sterile rooms, laboratories, medical imaging, … (Treatment of fresh air to be determined by users)
- Mechanical ventilation in waiting areas and patient rooms.
The site cannot rely on a centralized sewage system. This resulted in a wastewater treatment system consisting of settling tanks, aeration tanks and disinfection tanks. The treated water is used to supply a local water feature. Special attention has been paid to the operation of the system by local less educated people. Good management is important because the filtering out of residues from medicines can have an influence on the processing bacteria.
In this way, the site can operate completely autonomously in terms of water management.
They have planned this very well. You know it will executed with perfection.
Mashallah
Puntland to be first to get 300,000 doses of Covid-19 Vaccine
Ha nolato PL
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Ha nolato PL
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Grigori Rasputin
Former Somali Minister of Mismanagement & Misinfo.
Staff Member
Wariyaha SomaliSpot
This medication is already banned in the EU.
#SomaliaKills
I hope PL ensures front line workers at hospital get it first and then 'older people' and 'people who have pre-existing illness as their vulnerable' we must make use of our 'dosage' portion as we have to share this with all Somalia, make sure we only give injections to hospital staff as their front line in hospital and also elderly people as their immune system is weaker and people with pre-existing immune conditions(any age group).
After that we can slowly roll it out universally but prioritize 'kids' under 10 who are also the most vulnerable as their immune system weli ma dhismin and then roll out to everyone else between 25-60 as the the last demographic and even among them we must prioritize based on a 'health criteria'. But u get my point guys we need to make use of our portion by targetting who gets priority due to pre-existing condition-age-exposure risk like hospital staff.
Congratulate Puntland who is the head-quarter of COVID 19 vaccination in Somalia.
After that we can slowly roll it out universally but prioritize 'kids' under 10 who are also the most vulnerable as their immune system weli ma dhismin and then roll out to everyone else between 25-60 as the the last demographic and even among them we must prioritize based on a 'health criteria'. But u get my point guys we need to make use of our portion by targetting who gets priority due to pre-existing condition-age-exposure risk like hospital staff.
Congratulate Puntland who is the head-quarter of COVID 19 vaccination in Somalia.
is it the astazeneca vaccine?
www.cnn.com
More European nations pause AstraZeneca vaccine use as blood clot reports investigated | CNN
Denmark, Iceland and Norway have suspended the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine while the European Union's medicines regulator investigates whether the shot could be linked to a number of reports of blood clots.
is it the astazeneca vaccine?
More European nations pause AstraZeneca vaccine use as blood clot reports investigated | CNN
Denmark, Iceland and Norway have suspended the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine while the European Union's medicines regulator investigates whether the shot could be linked to a number of reports of blood clots.
Australia is using 'pfizer' and it's going quite well. Maybe we should 'test' healthy age bracket people first before pre-existing condition ones or the elderly as it may cause complications for those, we need 'test dummies' come on puntites come out if your healthy and take the shot as it will tell us if the issue is the medication or if it's just pre-existing condition-elderly who have comprised immune systems. This is important that we don't kill puntites or give them new health complications when they never had one.
Europe banned it?
As the European medicines agency said:
" There is currently no indication that vaccination has caused these conditions, which are not listed as side effects with this vaccine."
The Austrian national competent authority and 17 other countries has suspended the use of a batch of COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca (batch number ABV5300) not the vaccine itself
and is the comment of the The International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis:
"we recommend that all eligible adults continue to receive their COVID-19 vaccinations, despite the recent decisions by Austria, Denmark, Norway and Iceland to at least temporarily suspend the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine due to reports of thrombosis."
"At this time, the small number of reported thrombotic events relative to the millions of administered COVID-19 vaccinations does not suggest a direct link."
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It will be a massive achievement for the current Puntland admin to obtain Covid-19 vaccines before humongous African countries get it.
www.radiodalsan.com
Mid kamid ah Maamul Goboleedyada dalka oo la keenayo tallaalka COVID-19
Wasaaradda Caafimaadka dowlad Goboleedka Puntland ayaa shaacisay in todobaadka dambe tallaalka Cudurka halista ah ee COVID-19 soo gaari doono Magaalada
www.radiodalsan.com
I am afraid it's not Pfizer as those vaccines have unfortunately storage conditions which Africa can't fulful. They need to be stored in -80 degrees Celsius refrigerators.
KobeBryant
VIP
@Grigori Rasputin as Covid did with these lockdowns and precautions is show us how incapable African nations are
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Grigori Rasputin
Former Somali Minister of Mismanagement & Misinfo.
Staff Member
Wariyaha SomaliSpot
@Grigori Rasputin as Covid did with these lockdowns and precautions is show us how incapable African nations are
Qaarada habaarka qabta never stops making me shake my head.
They’ve vaccinated everyone in the uk with astrazeneca and Pfizer everyone seems to be okay it’s just not recommended if you have blood clot issues to take it. Over 22 million have take the AstraZeneca vaccine so far including my friends and family so far no worrying side effects. Well done puntland 
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