Founder & Chief Strategist AMEN |
The demand for hospital beds in India is expected to be around 2.8 million by 2014 to match the global average of three beds per 1000 population from the present 0.7 beds. India needs 100,000 beds each year for the next 20 years at over $10 billion per year. Understanding these statistics, two young healthcare entrepreneurs felt the need to conduct a series of conferences on hospital planning, design and architecture across the country and succeeded.
Principal Consultant Hospaccx India Systems |
HospiArch, the brainchild of Paniel Jayanth and Tarun Katiyar, founders of AMEN and HOSPACCX India Systems repectively, was designed to create a platform for doctors, entrepreneurs, consultants and architects etc. who are aspiring to build new hospitals. The conference series covered six places in 2012 namely Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kochi and Delhi. The first HospiArch Conference was conducted at Chennai in January 2012 and continued to Hyderabad in April, Mumbai in June, Bangalore in August, Kochi in September and Delhi in November. Each conference saw a participation of more than 150 delegates comprising entrepreneurs, hospital promoters, CEOs, administrators, architects and students.
| Dr Alexander Kuruvilla, CEO, Medica Synergie | Dr Vivek Desai, Managing Director, HOSMAC India |
The topics, strategically designed by Paniel, were one of the main reasons for the success of the Conference series as they brought about efficient speakers to present on them and prolific discussions within the audience. Some of the key topics were:
- Architectural challenges involved in building a new hospital
- Planning and designing a new hospital
- Re-planning and redesigning an existing hospital
- Budgeting and financial planning for a new hospital project
- Quality standards applicable to hospital planning
- Planning a green hospital
- Manpower planning for a new hospital
- Planning and designing lab and other diagnostic areas of the hospital
Some of the key speakers included: Dr Alexander Kuruvilla, CEO, Medica Synergie, Bangalore; Anil Maini, Executive Director, Moolchand Medicity, New Delhi, Dr Anilkumar Mulpur, VP & Clinical Director, Narayana Hrudayalaya, Hyderabad, (Hony) Brig Dr Arvind Lal, Chairman and Managing Director, Dr Lal Path Labs, New Delhi; Dr Arun Sharma, Medical Suptd., Govt Hospital, Jammu; Asoka Katakam, Architect, Katakam Associates, Hyderabad; Dr Chandrashekar R, Chief Architect, Central Design Bureau for Medical & Health Bldg., Ministry of Health & FW, Govt of India. New Delhi; Gaurav Malhotra, Managing Director and CEO, Patni Healthcare, Mumbai; Jagruthi Bhatia, Director – Lead Healthcare Advisory Services, KPMG, Mumbai; Lakshman Gowda TL, CEO, The Cradle, Calicut; Dr S Manivannan, Joint Medical Director, Kauvery Hospital, Chennai; Dr (Wg Cdr) MD Marker, Medical Director, Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain Hospital, Bangalore; Monika Kejriwal, GM, Healthcare Planning, Chaithanya Projects, Bangalore; Nagappan, GM Materials, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai; Dr Parvez Ahamad, Group Medical Director, Rainbow Children’s Hospital, Hyderabad; Dr Pradeep Bhardwaj, CEO, Six Sigma Healthcare, New Delhi; Radhakrishna, CEO, Narayana Hrudayalaya, Hyderabad; Dr Rajeev Boudhankar, Vice President, Kohinoor Hospitals, Mumbai; Ratan Jalan, Founder & Principal Consultant, Medium Healthcare Consulting, Hyderabad; Dr PS Reddy, G M Hospital Administration, Kamineni Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital, Hyderabad; Sandeep Shikre President + CEO, SSA Architects, Mumbai; Dr Sanjeev Singh, Medical Suptd., Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi; Dr N Sethuraman, Chairman, Meenakshi Mission Hospital, Madurai; Sujayanti Dasgupta, Associate, HKS, Chennai; Susee Papinazath, Managing Director, Skydome Designs, Chennai; Dr Varma Vagesna, Vice Chairman & MD, Lazarus Hospitals, Hyderabad; Dr Vivek Desai, Managing Director, HOSMAC India, Mumbai.
| (Hony) Brig Dr Arvind Lal, CMD, Dr Lal Path Labs | Dr Chandrashekar R, Chief Architect, Ministry of Health & FW |
“Owing to the success of the series and immense motivation gained from more than 700 participants, 25 sponsors and partners across the country in six cities, we are glad to announce HospiArch 2013, and spread our knowledge platform of perfecting architectural designing and meeting the numbers needed to match the growing need in patient care,” announced Paniel. HospiArch 2013 would be held at 12 different places of the country in 12 months starting from Vijayawada on Jan 24, 2013. The list include: Vijayawada, Chandigarh, Pune, Coimbatore, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Indore, Guwahati, Lucknow, Jammu, Jaipur, Trivandrum