Current Issue [Vol. 10, No. 05] [May 2024]

Health care providence is a critical aspect in any community or country worldwide. In most countries, the health docket is assigned a ministry on its own that is accountable for ensuring proper healthcare is provided, challenges are solved and money is allocated to finance healthcare providence in purchasing of drugs and paying the health practitioners. The basic foundation of proper healthcare providence is through the employment of competent healthcare workers that fully understand what is expected of them in their respective areas of expertise. Competent health practitioners are birthed at school during training. A conducive environment with proper training and resources is therefore a step in the right direction in providing competent health workers. At the fore front of health practitioners are the doctors. Their role is providence of essential medical care, prescription of medication, performance of surgeries and offering preventive measures in maintenance of health. The doctors therefore play a vital role in enhancing the healthcare sector and subsequently, their training is crucial in gearing the health docket in the right direction. With the projected increase in population, there will be need for more doctors and concurrently construction of more training institutions for the doctors. This study involved the design of a medical school which would support the education of doctors and production of detailed drawings and specifications of the facility according to accepted codes and standards. The school will be helpful in alleviating the doctor to patient ratio and decreasing the pressure imposed on the few available school of medicine in Kenya which currently admitmore students than their capacity.
Keywords: School of medicine, Structural analysis and Design, Eurocodes standards, ProtaStructure, TeklaTedds