COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE, RAIKOT, PUNJAB

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COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE, RAIKOT, PUNJAB

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COMMUNITY
HEALTH CENTRE, RAIKOT
Architect:
Sarbjit Singh Bahga


          Raikot is a Tehsil Headquarters of District
Ludhiana, and located at a distance of 45 kilometres from Ludhiana on Mullanpur-Barnala State Highway
No-13. Community Health Centre Raikot has been built on a three-hectare site on
the outskirts of the town. The building has a compact double-storeyed
structure. It comprises two blocks joined together by a central circulation
core containing a porch, entrance foyer, staircase, and a ramp. Each block
houses different functions at different levels. The

           Left-side block accommodates
outpatient department (OPD), diagnostic, and pharmacy at the ground-floor
level, and inpatient department at the first-floor level. The right-side block
is designed to have pediatrics and gynecology department at the ground-floor
level, and operation-theatre wing at the first-floor level. By virtue of their
juxtaposition, these four wings function independently, and can be opened or
closed at different timings. The position of the porch, entrance foyer, ramp,
and staircase is such that the patients can go to their required wing without
any interference with the others.

            The building of the Community
Health Centre has been designed as an example of the smallest practicable
30-bed hospital. Conscious efforts have been made to save every inch of plinth
area so that the construction cost can be brought down to the minimum. The
success of the design can be gauged from the fact that the hospital has been
designed with a built-up area of 1520 square metres whereas the Indian Standard
Institute stipulates an area of 1800 square metres for a similar hospital.
Nevertheless, no curtailment has been made in any of the requisite functions.
This has been achieved by optimising the room-sizes and avoiding unnecessary
repetitions of some components like staircases, toilets, nursing stations,
registrations, etc. Besides the above, overlapping of some spaces have resulted
in substantial reduction of gross area total. For instance, headroom space
available underneath the upper flights of ramp and staircase has been
ingeniously utilised for registration, record, and sluice-room attached with
the testing laboratory. To further economise on cost of construction, most of
the wet-areas have been vertically stacked, and service-pipes efficiently
housed in shafts.

              Entrance to the hospital has been made
conspicuous and inviting by jutting the porch out of the main building. A
covered walkway connects the porch to the entrance foyer. This semi-detached
walkway accommodates a chequered-tile
low-gradient
ramp, and two free-standing panel-walls alongside. These panel-walls hold the
foundation and inauguration stone plaques in niches on the inner side. The
porch and the walkway thus act as an interesting transitional space between
inside and outside. As one enters the main foyer, one faces the
prominently-located reception/registration counter on the front wall. After the
registration the patients can go either to the outpatient unit on left side or
gynecology unit on the right. From here a ramp and a staircase lead visitors to
upper floor containing wards and operation theatres. Effective segregation of
patients' flow results in efficient functioning of the hospital.
          The design of this hospital has also
been adopted at number of other places e.g., at Sarawan Bodlan in District
Mukatsar, and Ghuman in District Gurdaspur.

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