‘‘We have designed facilities for many leading service providers in the healthcare industry’’

Started in 1997 by architect Girish Deshpande, Focusz designs is an architecture and interior design consulting firm. It provides project management services and undertakes turnkey jobs as well. With 15 years of experience and more than 150 projects to its credit Focusz designs is a leading company in the commercial, industrial, retail and healthcare segment. Girish Deshpande, Founder, Focusz Designs informs about his company, its offerings and future plans

Please brief us about your bundle of service offerings.

Girish Deshpande

We offer services in Architecture, Interior design, project management and design and built. In architecture we offer design of healthcare, residential, commercial and industrial buildings. In interior design we specialise in conceptualisation and complete design and execution of corporate offices, healthcare and diagnostic centres, Franchise-based establishments such as restaurants, clinics, jems and jewellery showrooms, life-style stores etc. We also provide design and build services for interiors. We offer project management services for large scale works where we supervise and control time cost and quality of the project.

What is the core competency of Focusz Designs in the healthcare industry?

Our core competency is designing interiors for large scale corporate offices, diagnostic centres and healthcare BPO’s. We have designed facilities for many leading service providers in the healthcare industry such as Sandoz, Cipla, Ottobock orthopaedic, Transasia bio medicals, latest being a 30,000 sft. facility for Infinx healthcare services.

What are the opportunities and challenges that you foresee in Indian healthcare industry?

Low level healthcare expenditure by the government, public sanitation standards, shortage of power, water, traffic congestion, medical and paramedical staff, low level insurance coverage, accreditation of healthcare facilities are few of the challenges faced by the Indian healthcare industry. Expecting Indian healthcare industry to touch $150 billion by 2017, there exist a big opportunity for the Indian infrastructure industry. Majority healthcare players are now expanding to tier II and tier III cities and many semi urban areas have demand for high quality healthcare services. Many healthcare majors are targeting new segments such as primary care and diagnostics, bio surveillance, healthcare tourism, medical transciption, Medical insurance outsourcing and so on. We feel architecture and interior design services will be required to set up large hospitals, medical transcription centers, BPOs, diagnostic centers etc.

Please share with us the vision that you hold for Focusz Designs in future

We are focusing on becoming a leading player in the healthcare industry. We want to expand our portfolio by providing our architectural services to hospital projects coming up in tier II and tier III cities and also to concentrate on many new segments such as healthcare tourism, medical insurance outsourcing etc.