Make have been commissioned to build the first children’s hospital in Kurdistan, which will provide the highest standard of clinical care in Iraq and act as a state-of-the-art referral hospital for the region. The proposed scheme, located in the capital city of Erbil, aims to establish a means of health care intervention which will reduce child fatalities.
The hospital is located on the north-east edge of Erbil. The proposals make use of the undulating site by partially burying the service basement, separating out the various entrances and facilitating direct escape from the first floors. The hospital, which looks out across a rural landscape which will be enhanced with therapeutic gardens and parklands, is designed in a radial plan around a central atrium, forming the social heart of the building, providing easy way finding around the building and creating a welcoming and friendly focus for children, their families and the staff.
The complex includes a 120-bed main building and support buildings including a hotel, staff accommodation and a supermarket. The 3-storey main hospital provides 56 single rooms, four 6-bed bays and 20 VIP rooms. The clinical facilities will accommodate three operating rooms, an emergency department, an imaging department, specialist outpatient clinics, a paediatric and neo-natal intensive care unit and a women’s hospital.
