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Women and Children's Centre

In line with international practice in hospital development, a dedicated centre for women and children is planned for Trondheim.

Patients under eighteen who are admitted to the hospital will stay at this centre. With some exceptions, all children and young people will be treated here, and surgery will be undertaken at the centre.

Women about to give birth and those with gynaecological conditions will also be treated here.

The building will accommodate the National Centre for Foetal Medicine and the hospital's unit for infertility treatment. The Women and Children's Centre will also offer services in child psychiatry.

Total space is 26,900 m2. The university areas comprise just over 20 % of the centre, while the rest belongs to the hospital. The centre will include 107 beds, 9 operating theatres and a radiology department with 4 diagnostic units.

There will be 47 day-treatment places, 16 beds for post-operative care, 14 delivery rooms, 22 neonatal cots, 4 intensive-care beds and 4 observation beds.

The Women and Children's Centre represents a new approach to childbirth. The mother will not have to be moved around. Everything involved in the delivery and the period immediately following it will take place in the same room.

After normal births, the mother and baby will be transferred to their own room in the new Patient Hotel.

In planning the children's part of the centre, great emphasis has been placed on creating a safe and pleasant environment for children and young people. The centre has been planned with five floors and a technical mezzanine floor.

Facts: Women and Children`s Centre:

Costruction starts: January 3, 2003
Planned completion date: 2006
Gross area: 26,900 m2
Project manager: Lindis Burheim
Principal architecht Medplan