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T-plan for M$14 million Seremban General Hospital

THE site of the new general hospital at Seremban, 45 miles south of Kuala Lumpur, covers more than 30 acres. But it is rough terrain and before the project was put in hand a hillock on the north of the site rose to almost 300 ft. above sea level.

The top of this hill was levelled off by almost 20 ft. to provide a plateau, and a shelf was cut at a lower level to give a combined building area for the hospital of about eight acres.

Because of the hilly nature of the site, a pavilion type design was discard- ed in favour of two multi-storey slab blocks to house the wards and other important departments to which the public need not have direct access. Other diagnostic and treatment depart-

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ments which need constant public ac- cess were then spread out in low rise blocks at the foot of the two slab blocks.

The hospital provides 720 beds and comprehensive medical facilities. Eight first-class wards are housed in a 300 ft. long by nine-storey high slab block running north to south, while 16 second-class and 16 third-class wards are contained in another 390 ft. long by nine-storey block running east to west; the two blocks are at right angles to each other to form a 'T' on plan.

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Within the same block as the first- class wards are 14 housemen's and re- gistrars' accommodations on the eighth floor, a small Royal suite on the 7th floor, a surgical suite of eight operating theatres on the 3rd and part of the 4th floors, a central sterile sup- ply department on the 2nd floor, a maternity suite on the 1st floor, and a central radiology department on the ground floor.

At the right angles of the 'T' form- ed by the two slab blocks are the casualty department, the pharmacy,

Far East BUILDER, May 1970