TITLE:
Comparative Analysis of Facility Present Condition of Selected Schools and Hospitals in Rivers State, Nigeria
AUTHORS:
Kelachi Kejeh, Ify L. Nwaogazie, Sule Samuel
KEYWORDS:
Facility Present Condition, Schools, Hospitals, Comparative Analysis, Z-Test and Checklist
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Civil Engineering,
Vol.12 No.4,
December
30,
2022
ABSTRACT: This article investigates the comparative analysis of the facility
present condition (FPC) of selected health and educational buildings in Rivers
State. State funded hospitals and schools (14 functional out of 23 general
hospitals and 2 out of 3 tertiary schools) were selected for the study. The
general hospital is a secondary health facility designed to bring health care
services close to citizens especially those in rural
communities. These facilities were inherited from the colonial masters in 1960. An
assessment visit in2016 found the 23 general hospitals completely dilapidated
and abandoned. However, rehabilitation intervention
was carried out by the government in 2020. This scenario was quite different with the
schools. Thus, this study is to increase the awareness of facility operators on
building maintenance. A purposive sampling technique was used in selecting the hospitals and
schools, while simple random sampling was adopted for questionnaire
distribution to 300 respondents. The instrument reliability and validity were
ascertained using Cronbach Alpha and face validity. The instrument obtained
information about the status of the facility present condition. SPSS and
Microsoft Xlstat were used to obtain the mean and frequency distribution of the responses. Comparative analysis was
conducted to understand the FPC of the schools and hospitals. Z-test was
deployed to ascertain if there was a significant difference in the FPC between the two
institutions. Checklist was adopted to confirm the findings. The result from the survey showed that schools have
better FPC than hospitals.