The Amritha hospital (green building, limiting Carbon footprint and effluent discharge) that started construction in 2017, will finish construction in 2027 with 1 crore sq ft floor area, (10 million or 100 lakh sq ft) spread over 14 floors and a separate 4 floor Research centre (300,000 sqft with a total of 10 million sqft) offering 2400 beds.
The Amritha hospital in Kochi was the first hospital from Mata Amritanandamayi, the spiritual leader from Kollam Kerala, who shot to fame for her humanitarian work. Mātā Amritānandamayī Devī was born Sudhamani Idamannel; 27 September 1953, often known simply as Amma ("Mother"), is a humanitarian and spiritual leader who could be listed foremost with Sri Sri Ravishankar and Jaggi Vasudev.
Though Sri Sri Ravishankar based out of Bangalore runs Art of Living, the world's largest non governmental organisation and Jaggi Vasudev runs the Isha Foundation out of Coimbatore, two large organisations serving the spiritual needs of the people, they have not ventured at projects this big in size and stature.
Amrita hospital in Faridabad when fully complete in 2027 will have
- 8 Centres of Excellence
- 81 specialities
- 64 Operation theatres
- 534 ICU beds
- 10,000 staff
- 800 doctors
- Robotic testing labs
- 498 room visitor Guest House and
- a helipad.
Helipad is common in all corporate hospitals that work for profit and not service. Each floor is 11 acres in area with 14 floors on a 133 acre area land in Sector 8 in Faridabad, Haryana.
When completed in 2027, as regards hospital built up space, the Amrita hospital will be 2.2 million sq ft larger than the present global #1, First Affiliated hospital in Zhengzhou, China.
Click here for more information from Financial Express.
India is the land of spiritual sages, the people who have known nature and God for centuries, has also been the land where maximum philanthropic activities have been undertaken by spiritual organisations. This centre gives us hope that our spiritiual leaders are indeed on the right path of service to society.
With the example of Arvind Netralaya in Madurai housing the world largest, advanced and affordable eye care in the world offers 90% of its services free to the needy and poor patients, it has to be seen what percentage of patients coming to the Amrita hospital in Faridabad will be treated free, though we know approximately 20% of patients coming to the Kochi Amritha Institute of Medical Sciences, super speciality hospital get free treatment.
With Bureau of Energy Efficiency and GRIHA ratings for environmental management, Amrita hospital in Faridabad is going to set an example for hospitals around the world on using locally available materials for building construction, ensuring high quality of indoor environmental space, use of electric vehicles in the 133 acre campus, effective rainwater harvesting, effective waste treatment and waste management practices and so on. click here
In addition to being the world's largest hospital in terms of built up area (in First Affiliated hospital in Zhengzhou, it is told they have patient beds even under the staircase and in the corridors to make the numbers) Amrita Faridabad is also the world's largest green hospital with
1. construction done using locally available building materials,
2. large rainwater harvesting facilities,
3. solar panels to generate electricity,
4. excellent indoor environmental air quality with good cross ventilation and
5. possessing excellent waste treatment facilities
helping it earn GRIHA (Indian green building) certification too. I doubt whether any other global hospital has these superior green building standards. 🌹🙏 Hospitals around the world are known to be all-time environmental hazards..
When healthcare facilities of this magnitude take to healthy green practices, it gives great promise to the future citizens assuring them a great future and teaching them how economic and healthcare growth can indeed go hand in hand with healthy environmental practices.
I had the good opportunity to visit the Amrita School of Business at Ettimadai, Coimbatore early this year, being among the first Bschools in South India to get the much coveted and prestigious globally acclaimed AACSB accreditation. Click here for my write up on that visit and why Bschools need to go for accreditation.
George.
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