What is the rationale behind setting up the Design Centre?
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Nikil Rao
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Over the past decade, the healthcare sector in India has evolved tremendously. Our customers are looking for vendors who will provide care area solutions rather than simply products. Dräger Design Centre was built as an in service to our customers. By looking at customised solutions, they can now plan their facilities and decide their investment plans and priorities. The 290 sq m state-of-the-art Dräger Design Centre enables users and planners to do exactly that and allows them to work together with Dräger experts in order to plan and design their medical workplaces under realistic conditions.
What benefits can the healthcare players accrue from it?
| Significant time and money is needed to create good healthcare infrastructure |
Our customers that include hospital planners, architects, end users and hospital owners can decide on the various customised options available and according to their need of infrastructure, optimise their workspace and work-flow requirements. Gas management planning and 3D application tool helps our customers to instantly design and visualise their concepts. This helps them greatly during the planning of the hospital set up.
Moreover, the comprehensive solutions in all areas namely Emergency, Operating Room, Recovery and ICU that are displayed in the Design Centre can help them to decide on their choice of patient care area.
The Design Centre also showcases other solutions along the clinical pathway such as a modular operation room. It also offers a training room to accommodate 22 people and an additional meeting facility for eight people.
Sustainable infrastructure is the need of the hour in Indian healthcare. Can a Design Centre like this have a hand in facilitating it to an extent?
The Draeger Design Centre provides awareness towards standards/ norms that lead to quality infrastructure entailing faster throughputs, paperless solutions, better patient care and hygiene and infection control. We will continuously upgrade the Design Centre in order to provide pioneering solutions to our customers.
One of the key objectives of developing and showcasing the Design Centre is to engage with planners, architects and key decision makers of the hospital layout and infrastructure during their planning stage itself. Significant time and monetary investments are made in order to design and create hospital infrastructure. It is difficult to make amendments at a later stage if the development has already begun.
Any plans to set up such centres elsewhere in the country?
| Neonatal care has an important position in Drager’s offerings |
The Design Centre in Mumbai has received an overwhelming response since its inauguration on August 14, 2012. We have received hundreds of visitors so far from the entire gamut of our medical fraternity. People from all over the country and from the entire breadth of the medical fraternity have visited the Design Centre.
Subsequent to the Design Centre at our Headquarters in Lubeck in Germany, we are very proud to bring the second one here in Mumbai, the Headquarters of India. It is a unique set up and we would therefore house the facility here at Mumbai as of now.
You are exhibiting at HBII 2013, what is your agenda for the event? Any new launches planned at HBII?
Hospital Build & Infrastructure India is one of the leading hospital infrastructure sector trade shows in India. We would continue our engagement with hospital planners and architects in the show. We are planning to demonstrate our 3-D application tool and provide extensive information of our Design Centre at the HBII 2013.