Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Nwsa, cilt.7, sa.2, ss.532-543, 2012 (Hakemli Dergi)
Both in terms of their functions and occupancy characteristics,
hospitals require special design criteria and safety measures. Protection of
users and ensuring their safety is important during a fire and during the
follow-up phases of to sustain treatment of patients. Hospital fire is a
disaster that is frequently encountered today as was the case in the past.
With advances in treatment and care conditions in hospitals it is considered
that fire safety measures are more likely to develop in the light of
technological advances in these buildings. Adapting the measures to be taken
by examining the factors causing the start and spread of these fires to
existing and new hospitals will help preventing new disasters and ensuring
safety of hospitals and patients. For this purpose similar aspects of “Bursa
Şevket Yılmaz Hospital fire” where 9 patients died and “Cleveland hospital
fire” where 121 patients died are explained and the progress of the measures
within this time period is discussed. This analysis will help to correct the
deficiencies that affect the start and spread of fire and to design hospitals
with fire safety.