Hospitals overseas: keeping costs down.
Britain is far from alone in its attempts to curb the capital costs of new hospitals. David Cowan, leader of the hospitals research group in the South African National Building Research Institute at Pretoria, describes in this paper, based on one originally presented to an IHF congress, how his country has tried to meet the problem.
D006268:Health Facilities; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction / Q000191:economics*; D010362:Patients' Rooms; D013019:South Africa