PROPOSED NATIONAL PAEDIATRIC HOSPITAL, ADO-EKITI, EKITI STATE, NIGERIA AN ATTEMPT AT CREATING A HEALING ENVIRONMENT IN HOSPITALS

Health care is one of the most important aspects of life. A hospital is a health care institution that focus on the treatment of patients, that is made effective through necessary and proper facilities, equipment and personnel Children’s hospital is a specialized hospital that offers treatment exclusively to adolescents and children from birth to the age of eighteen through some children hospitals will continue to see children with rare illnesses into adulthood. Having a specific facility for treating children would not only provide better treatment for children , but reduce the strain on the facilities of general hospitals, allowing the surrounding general hospitals to work at better and more efficient capacity. The essence of this project is to plan and design a children’s hospital as a means to reduce child mortality rate. The major consideration in this design is healing environment within the functional spaces in the hospital. in achieving this objective the breitfuss model will be adopted in the desig