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Laundry service provides adequate, clean, sterilized and constant supply of linen to all user departments. Their basic tasks include sorting, washing, extracting, drying, ironing, folding, mending and delivery. Laundry infrastructure shall have central storage area, dirty receipt, mending and tailoring, sorting/weighing, washing, ironing, packing, clean storage, general storage administration rooms and public utility etc. Laundry shall be provided with adequate supply of hot and cold water, adequate drainage of used water, power supply, steam boilers (if required), clothesline to dry washed linen in the sun etc. The Laundry shall be located in the service area of the hospital, with close access to the clean and dirty loading dock areas. The size of the laundry area will depend on the size of the hospital, the total load of the linen to be washed per day, and the number and type of laundry equipment to be installed.
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Garg, A., Dewan, A. (2022). Laundry. In: Manual of Hospital Planning and Designing. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8456-2_32
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