Open AccessFeatures of the Designing of Infectious Diseases Hospitals in a Pandemic
Author(s) -
A I Plyashkevich,
I B Melnikova
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/988/5/052066
Subject(s) - pandemic , dozen , christian ministry , covid-19 , infectious disease (medical specialty) , isolation (microbiology) , health care , russian federation , repurposing , medicine , medical emergency , political science , geography , disease , regional science , engineering , arithmetic , mathematics , microbiology and biotechnology , pathology , law , biology , waste management
The article describes hospital design in a period of pandemic. In the situation of a rapidly spreading epidemic of coronavirus infection, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation has faced a lacking of isolation hospitals in more than a dozen regions of Russia. There were taken various methods of setting up health care institutions for infectious patients during the year, in order to conquer the infection spread. Three of those came out to be the most effective. The first method is adaptation of the existing public buildings for health care needs. Another method is building pre-fabricated field hospitals. The third one is repurposing existing hospitals to infectious ones. This article investigates these basic approaches of creating hospitals in a period of pandemic and giving analysis to the main planning principles for infectious types of heath care institutions.