Indian hospitals set their sights on green healthcare infrastructure to improve patient recovery
Posted on June 9, 2023 Updated on June 6, 2023
Indian hospitals have now set their sights on green healthcare infrastructure in an effort to improve patient recovery while making use of natural resources in an efficient and environment-friendly manner.
According to Ravideep Singh, associate director, Creative Designer Architects, designing sustainable healthcare infrastructure is gaining traction. Modern-day public buildings require an uninterrupted energy supply coupled with immense amounts of natural resources such as water. Hospital buildings specifically require a large amount of such supplies, owing to the constant habitation. However, with the rise of general awareness about environmental sustainability, the need to efficiently use energy and other resources has also grown.
Healthcare design is following to erect green building healthcare infrastructure that is environment-friendly and helps curb infections through various design strategies, he added.
Typically, hospitals in India have been designed and built to focus only on functionality, ignoring other aspects that affect the buildings in the long term. However, the past decade has witnessed a sea change in the outlook of healthcare providers, architects and patients. Stakeholders have begun to acknowledge the importance of sustainable design, and its impact on human health, stated Singh.
The Indian population and its morbidity continue to grow at a pace that intensifies the already existing lacuna of quality healthcare infrastructure. Existing hospitals are overburdened whilst lacking the quality care delivery that the patients deserve. This is where green infrastructure enables environmentally sustainable spaces, allowing for greater ecological harmony and healthier built environments, he noted.
Using a similar approach, our projects, such as AIIMS Guwahati and Max Super Specialty Hospital, Vaishali, employ multiple facets of sustainability from the standpoint of retaining existing ecology and optimising energy use whilst harmonising user experience, Singh told Pharmabiz in an email.
Hospitals are one of the most energy-intensive building types going its high degree of electro-mechanical and plumbing prerequisites. Typically, green healthcare infrastructure includes everything from highly efficient passive designs that minimise the use of mechanical equipment for heating and cooling to environments that are integrated to foster healing.
Biophilia and healthcare have vast synergy. Incorporating biophilia into healthcare environments, particularly in the form of flora and fauna, nature artwork and imagery, natural views, abundant daylight, therapeutic healing gardens and other manifestations of nature, has positively impacted patient experience, recovery rates, staff satisfaction etc. It positively impacts all end users and the environment at large, said Singh.
Green building materials like using biodegradable and recyclable materials such as rubber, composite woods etc., along with finishing materials that are locally sourced, have low VOC (volatile organic compound) content. These are also non-emitting and highly cleanable, hence becoming popular for use in green hospital design.
“Still, in its nascent stage, green healthcare infrastructure in Indian is being welcomed by the stakeholders of the Indian healthcare industry. With its rewards of better healing environments and energy-efficient operations, it will soon be a common sight for hospital campuses to become greener and more sustainable,” stated Singh.
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