To launch ‘Catalogue Hospitals’ concept to revolutionise healthcare infrastructure
KEF Holdings has entered into a partnership with Australia-headquartered company Total Alliance Health Partners International (TAHPI) towards the launch of “Catalogue Hospitals” concept to revolutionise healthcare infrastructure.
Reportedly, endorsing an industrialised approach to healthcare infrastructure, the “Catalogue Hospitals” concept has been designed to reduce project costs and the time-frame of implementation by almost 50 per cent – achieved largely on the back of innovative technology and economies of scale.
Under the partnership between KEF Holdings and TAHPI, a ‘KEF-TAHPI Design Studio’ has been set up at the Dubai Healthcare City for designing the prefabricated hospital modules that KEF will manufacture at KEF Industrial Park in Krishnagiri, Bengaluru.
The KEF-TAHPI Design Studio aims to offer a smart approach to the planning and execution of healthcare infrastructure (hospitals) across the region. Implementing a full industrialisation of processes for design, construction and delivery, the Studio will offer clients the convenience of choosing design options from an exhaustive design catalogue. The company creations also include designs that have been pre-approved by local health authorities.
Aladin Niazmand, MD, TAHPI, said, “Access to good hospitals and healthcare facilities is a basic human right that countries are striving to provide for citizens. However, demand from increasing populations in India far outstrips supply of durable, quality infrastructure. KEF-TAHPI Design Studio’s cost and time-effective modular solutions cater to this supply gap for smart infrastructure offerings in the healthcare industry.”
Faizal E. Kottikollon, Chairman-Founder, KEF Holdings, said, “A World Health Organization (WHO) study has revealed that India has only one hospital bed for around 1,050 people, as opposed to the US which has one bed for every 350 patients while in Japan this ratio is one for 85. India will need to add at least 650,000 beds by 2017 to improve healthcare offerings to its citizens. Taking into consideration the high capital expenditure and time involved in advancing this system, we believe the Studio brings excellent prospects for the public and private healthcare institutions in India.”
TAHPI is currently a strategic partner for KEF’s 500-bed tertiary hospital currently under construction in Calicut, India. When complete in Q1 of 2016, the ‘PMHP Hospital’ will be India’s first healthcare facility designed and developed entirely using offsite construction.
The catalogue of the KEF-TAHPI Design Studio presents five classes of modular hospitals including numerous samples of individual departments and room types. The catalogue will be unveiled at the KEF-TAHPI Design Studio showroom at ARAB HEALTH 2015 to be held at Dubai World Trade Center. The showroom incorporates three standard room types including a bedroom, bathroom and utility room, entirely designed and prefabricated by the Design Studio.
EH News Bureau