VITAE – Maternal and Pediatric Comprehensive Health Center
COMPREHENSIVE MATERNAL AND PEDIATRIC HEALTH CENTER
Monte Cristi, Dom. Rep.
Made by: Hiara Andújar, Carla Méndez and Isabela Díaz.
Professor: Arch. Sarah Tió
@EAD_PUCMM
Every day that passes, the field of medicine faces new challenges. New diseases, new discoveries, new medicines, new problems by region, and although we often do not see the relationship, Architecture can guarantee the advantage or disadvantage that medicine faces in the face of these challenges. This is why when focusing on Architecture for health, we must not simply see how we can respond in our language to health demands, but also how our contributions to design can directly or indirectly affect the improvement of this problem. This is the main objective of this design process: Not only to provide an architectural language to the environment in which it is located, but also how to solve one of the biggest problems facing the Health sector in the Dominican Republic, such as the high death rate. maternal and infant.
Did you know that in 2017, 88% of maternal and child deaths are identified as preventable and 85% of them are related to the lack of quality of care? The lack of attention to this situation makes it necessary to develop a Comprehensive Maternal and Pediatric Health Center. With quality services and spaces of universal access that ensure and protect the lives of hundreds of newborn children, vulnerable women and young mothers, we will provide a solution to one of the most worrying health problems in the country. This is located in the border area, which has the highest rate of maternal mortality at the national level, 154.1 deaths per 10,000 live births, significantly higher than the national average (107.1) and the main economic centers of the country (National District, Santo Domingo and Santiago).
In response to the current framework of the health and well-being situation in the Dom. Rep., the students have developed the project Maternal and Pediatric Comprehensive Health Center, located at C/Pimentel, esq. C/27 de Febrero, in the Bella Vista Sector, located in Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic. Responding to the lack of care and quality services for vulnerable young women, pregnant women and children. The center is intended to create an atmosphere of relaxation by establishing a balance between the natural landscape and hospital facilities, offering quality spaces and promoting community and learning activities.
Medical care
Unit where all specializations will be treated from consultations, primary care to surgical treatments. Divided by specialization: Pediatrics, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emergencies, Diagnostics, Pathologies, etc.
Hospitalization
The main function of this unit is the comprehensive care of mother and child through procedures that require bed rest, medical surveillance, nursing care and support of auxiliary methods of diagnosis and treatment.
Administration
It is the unit in charge of directing, managing, controlling and coordinate programs, human, material and financial resources, as well as enforce the rules, regulations, provisions that help improve the efficiency of the services of each unit
Áreas sociales
Áreas designadas para estimular la interacción social entre personal médico y pacientes. A su vez engloba aquellas áreas de espacios verdes y zonas de mejoramiento personal.
Services
Areas for the efficient operation of the Health Center and its needs. From technicians to cleaning and sterilization of surgical equipment. Everything necessary so that the work to be carried out complies with the necessary standards. In turn, services for user efficiency, from parking to security.
Education and Psychosocial Assistance
Areas of personal and community improvement, where users are helped in sexual educational contexts and Psychosocial Assistance. It seeks the mental well-being of the users who join and in turn the overcoming of this.
The Comprehensive Maternal and Pediatric Health Center is a direct response to the health problems of the region as well as to the context that influences it. Creating the balance between a sensitive architectural response, the use of steel systems, a direct contact with nature and the creation of a healing environment for each user. The architectural proposal seeks not only to revitalize the Montecristi area in the #1 health destination for Maternal and Child care, but also seeks to integrate as part of the community and be a vital part of it, in order to improve it as a whole.
Sarah Tió | Professor of Architecture and Design