HAINAN PROVINCIAL PEOPLE'S HOSPITAL

Assignment: New hospital building
Architect: Chief architect Mikael Paatela
Client: Hainan Provincial People’s Hospital
Volume: Ca. 220,000 cu.m
Year: Design in 1998-1999, project

The hospital serves as the main medical facility for the ca. 8 million inhabitants of Hainan, the island forming the southernmost part of P. R. China. The proposed new building is located on an existing hospital site. Its 1100-bed patient ward block is a 19-storey tower, a necessity in the densely populated province, and there is also a 4-storey medical examination and treatment building. The proposed new hospital houses e.g., two operating theatre departments, radiotherapy, nuclear medicine, X-ray and functional examination departments, an emergency unit, an ICU and a CCU-unit, an ICU for children and the central laboratory facilities. It adjoins the existing out-patient department building. A new service and technical building will be connected to the new hospital by an underground service tunnel. Some of the existing buildings will be renovated and the patient, staff, and service traffic on the site reorganized so that the hospital will form a modern medical facility complex worthy of the 2000’s.