Abstract:
Maternity care in India is not meeting the needs of rural and remote women as evidenced by poor
access and outcomes. Rural communities have experienced substantial and ongoing loss of
maternity services for more than a decade. Consequently, rural women have to leave their
community Hospital Services does not operate in isolation but the co-operation and the
integration of several disciplines to provide the ultimate patient’s experience. The whole
objective of this thesis is to explore and to design the various hospital services’ areas essential
for the small scale bedded hospitals in India.
This study mainly focus on the design of maternity hospital in rural area with having all new
facility of privatized hospital.
The hospital services play major role in the functioning of the hospital system, easement of the
patients and provides all necessary areas for the equipment and the other departments.
The demand of the hospital services increases as the need of the patients rapidly increases, for
that purpose the suitable areas for the all services must be provided to ensure the well function of
hospitals. The requirements of areas should be defined as per the crowd which is to be catered in
a particular building. The purpose of study is to define the areas of non- ambulatory services in
small scale hospital which can be implemented for similar kind of project through comparative
analysis of case studies.
In summary, this study makes a contribution to the enhancement of maternity care and services
in rural Shahjahanpur and will improve the delivery & hospital quality so that rural women can
have the same experience and emotions about the hospitals which urban have.