7 MAJOR DEPARTMENTS OF AN

HOSPITAL
FINANCE DEPARTMENT
OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT (OPD)
ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT
INPATIENT WARDS
PATHOLOGY DEPARTMENT
PHARMACY DEPARTMENT
NURSING
major departments in a multispecality hospital

Outpatient department (OPD),

Surgical Department,
Inpatient Service (IP),
Nursing Department,
Physical Medicine,
Paramedical Department,
and Rehabilitation Department,
Dietary Department,
Pharmacy Department,
Operation Theatre Complex (OT),
Radiology Department (X-ray),
and Non-professional Services
Emergency room (ER),
emergency department (ED),
operating room (OR),
intensive care unit (ICU),
cardiac care unit (CCU),
nursery,
labor and delivery,
inpatient floors for medical, surgical,
and psychiatric patients
waste management department
EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

emergency department
specialist trauma center,
burn unit,
surgery,
urgent care
toilets
GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRIC
DEPARTMENT:
BIOPSY ROOM
RECEPTION STORAGE EQUIPMENT
MATERNAL-FETAL MEDICINE CUBICAL PATIENT DRESSING
ROOM MAMMOGRAPHY ROOM
PLAYROOM FLUOROSCOPY ROOM
PATIENT CHECK-IN ULTRASOUND ROOM
LACTATION ROOM LOUNGE
PHLEBOTOMY STATION CONFERENCE ROOM/EDUCATION
SCREENING ROOM ROOM
LABORATORY ELEVATORS
ALCOVE ROOM EMERGENCY PATIENT ENTRY AND
TOILETS EXIT
WARDS (POSTNATAL) STERILE ROOM
LABOR WARDS BIOHAZARD ROOM
EMERGENCY WARD SERVER CLOSET
BARIATRIC ROOM NURSE /PRACTIONER ROOM
SUB WAITING CONSULTATION ROOM
PROCEDURE ROOM DIRTY UTILITY
ANTEPARTUM ROOM MINOR SURGERY WARDS
TOILETS FOR ANTEPARTUM TELECOM SPACE
Outpatient Department (OPD)

1. Consultation, investigation, procedures, specialty services.

2. Preventive and promotive health care: Clinics, which include:
diabetic, antenatal, postnatal, and under five.
3. Rehabilitation services (physiotherapy, occupational therapy,
etc)
4. Health education
5. Counseling

1.Entrance-easily is accessible with a ramp, steps, and a wide

door.
2. Flooring-tiled with a slope towards the outlet
3. Reception/inquiry
4. Waiting hall
5. Consulting rooms
6. Signboards and layout plan
7. Bay for trolleys and wheelchairs
8. Toilet-separate for males and females
9. Public telephone
10. Board indicating names of consultants on leave

Inpatient Service (IP)

Wards and rooms

Nurses station
Dietary services
Sanitary facilities and other requirements
Ward can be
Intensive Care Wards (ICU)
Radiology Department (X-ray Department)

X-ray rooms: 25%

Film processing: 10%
Administration: 30%
Waiting area: 5%
Circulation area: 30%
Minimum Land area requirement are as follows:

Upto 100 beds = 0.25 to 0.5 hectare

Upto 101 to 200 beds = 0.5 hectare to 1 hectare
500 beds and above = 6.5 hectare (4.5 hectare for
hospital and 2 hectare for residential)

General Hospital - 80 to 85 sqm per bed to calculate

total plinth area. (Desirable).
Teaching Hospital - 100 to 110 sqm per bed to
calculate total plinth area.

(i) Operation Theatre a. One OT for every 50

general in-patient beds
b. One OT for every 25 surgical beds.
(ii) ICU beds = 5 to 10 % of total beds
(iii) Floor space for each ICU bed = 25 to 30 sq m (this
includes support services)
(iv) Floor space for Paediatric ICU beds = 10 to 12 sq
m per bed
(v) Floor space for High Dependency Unit (HDU) = 20
to 24 sq m per bed (vi) Floor space Hospital beds
(General) = 15 to 18 sq m per bed
(vii) Beds space = 7 sq m per bed.
(viii) Minimum distance between centres of two beds =
2.5 m
(ix) Clearance at foot end of each bed = 1.2 m
(minimum)
(x) Minimum area for apertures (windows/ Ventilators
opening in fresh air) = 20% of the floor area (if on same
wall) = 15% of the floor area (if on opposite walls)