Clinical and other important floor areas are covered in vinyl sheets with welded joints. The vinyl sheets were taken along a 3in. cove and up the wall to heights varying between 3ft. and 7ft., depending on the function of the
room.
Anaesthetising and adjacent areas have anti-static vinyl floor tiles, and the laundry and central kitchen floors are finished with an epoxy base lining trowelled on the screed. This material was chosen because of its durability and resistance to chemicals; and as a jointless floor it can be taken up machine bases and walls.
Walls are generally plastered and painted with two coats of emulsion. In operating theatres the vinyl sheeting is taken up the walls to a height of 7ft., while X-ray rooms have a 3/4in. ready- mixed barium plaster finish. Walls in toilets, baths, wash and sluice areas are covered in white glazed wall tiles.
Three types of ceiling panel are used. Offices, corridors, waiting areas and toilets have in. softboards. Clini- cal rooms, wards and sterile areas have 3/8in. compressed particle boards. Operating theatres and treatment rooms, X-ray rooms and the central sterile supply unit have gypsum plas- ter-board ceilings, grout-jointed to form a monolithic ceiling.
Services
Of interest is the central sterile sup- ply department an innovation in Malaysia. (The only other CSS units are in the University Hospital, and a small unit in the Kuala Lumpur Mater- nity Hospital.) Sterilisation work for the whole hospital is done in this one central department, thus relieving each of the other departments the tiresome and time-consuming task of doing its own sterilisation.
Three boilers are installed in the hospital, each capable of raising 6,500 lb. of steam per hour at a pressure of 150 lb. per sq. in. Only two of these boilers are required to supply the maximum steam requirements of the entire hospital and it is therefore possi- ble to overhaul one boiler without dis- turbing the steam-using functions of the hospital.
All the more important ancilliary equipment is duplicated to avoid inter- ruptions to hospital functions in case of equipment breakdowns. The boilers are arranged for fully automatic opera- tion, with special controls to ensure that the steam raising requirement is shared equally among all three boilers. Steam is supplied throughout the hos pital for laundries, kitchen, sterilisers,
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Typical upper floor plan
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hot-water heating and many other pur- poses. The boiler house is equiped with special provisions for fire preven- tion and extinguishing, including a car- bon dioxide flooding system.
The large central sewage treatment plant is capable of treating sewage at the rate of 150,000 gallons per day and is of the extended aeration type, air being supplied from a 25 hp Rootes blower for continuous aeration within the treatment plant. The affluent from this treatment plant is of a high degree of purity but is further chlorinated before final discharge.
The laundry is equipped with both large machines for laundering the bulk of the hospital requirements and with smaller equipment for the special re- quirements. Two large horizontal cy- lindrical washing machines, each cap- able of washing more than 400 lb. dry weight of laundry per hour, operate in conjunction with two large hydro- extractors (spin dryers) of equivalent capacity and a single tumbler drier which loosens the tightly packed laun- dry from the hydro-extractors and pre- pares it for ironing. Two additional 100 lb. per hour washer extractors (combination washing machines and spin-dryers) are provided to process items requiring special washing
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methods and a small drying tumbler is also provided for the final drying of items such as woollen clothing which do not require ironing.
A separate room, complete with its own 100 lb. per hour washer extractor and other facilities, is provided for the laundering of heavily soiled articles so that these items do not come into con- tact with other laundry until they are thoroughly clean. A large flatwork ironer is used to iron sheets, blankets, pillow cases and other flat items and can iron more than 650 lb. dry weight of laundry per hour.
Three sets of special garment press- es, each set having one operator, are provided for pressing of hospital cloth- ing and a number of steam-heated manual ironing boards are also provid- ed for other special articles. The total capacity of the laundry is sufficient for the anticipated increased launder- ing requirements of this hospital for a number of years.
The central kitchen is equipped to cook all the meals required for the en- tire hospital and equipment is provid- ed for the preparation of European type meals and special diet meals as well as for the normal Malaysian meals. The principal cooking equip- ment includes large gas-fired kwali
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