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When planning and designing healthcare facilities, it's important to remember: One size doesn't fit all. Especially when the medical centre being designed is for children, from newborns to adolescents.

Young patients have unique healthcare needs that require unique design choices, which are quite different from the design choices made in healthcare facilities for adults. The design solution isn't simply bright primary colours and bold figures or shapes. Accommodating children's needs to enhance their healthcare outcomes if far more nuanced and complex.

Patients in a dedicated paediatric facility are usually very ill (they're not just having their tonsils out or appendix removed). They may be "frequent flyers," meaning their illness requires them to return to the paediatric unit on a regular basis. Nonetheless, they're usually frightened of medical equipment and procedures. Whole families, from parents and siblings to grandparents, may be accompanying or even staying with the child during treatment.

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