KEF Holdings, which specialises in innovative offsite construction technology, has entered into a partnership with Australia-headquartered company Total Alliance Health Partners International (TAHPI) to  launch the ‘Catalogue Hospitals’ concept that would give a booster shot to the healthcare infrastructure.

The “Catalogue Hospitals” concept has been designed to reduce project costs and the timeframe of implementation by almost 50 per cent achieved largely on the back of innovative technology and economies of scale.

Under the partnership between KEF Holdings and TAHPI, a ‘KEF-TAHPI Design Studio’ has been set up at the Dubai Healthcare City for designing the prefabricated hospital modules that KEF will manufacture at KEF Industrial Park in Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu.

The company said that the KEF-TAHPI Design Studio aims to offer a smart approach to the planning and execution of healthcare infrastructure (hospitals) across the region. Implementing a full industrialization of processes for design, construction and delivery, the Studio will offer clients the convenience of choosing design options from an exhaustive design catalogue.  These designs have been pre-approved by local health authorities.

According to Aladin Niazmand, Managing Director, TAHPI, access to good hospitals and healthcare facilities is a basic human right that countries are striving to provide for citizens. However, demand from increasing populations in India far outstrips supply of durable, quality infrastructure. KEF-TAHPI Design Studio’s cost and time-effective modular solutions cater to this supply gap for smart infrastructure offerings in the healthcare industry.”

“A World Health Organization (WHO) study has revealed that India has only one hospital bed for around 1,050 people, as opposed to the US, which has one bed for every 350 patients while in Japan this ratio is one for 85. India will need to add at least 650,000 beds by 2017 to improve healthcare offerings to its citizens. Taking into consideration the high capital expenditure and time involved in advancing this system, we believe the Studio brings excellent prospects for the public and private healthcare institutions in India”, said Faizal E. Kottikollon, Chairman-Founder, KEF Holdings.

TAHPI is currently a strategic partner for KEF’s 500-bed tertiary hospital currently under construction in Calicut, India. When complete in Q1 of 2016, the ‘PMHP Hospital’ will be India’s first healthcare facility designed and developed entirely using offsite construction.

The catalogue of the KEF-TAHPI Design Studio presents 5 classes of Modular hospitals including numerous samples of individual departments and room types. The catalogue will be unveiled at the KEF-TAHPI Design Studio showroom at ARAB HEALTH 2015, the region’s largest Healthcare Exhibition and Medical Congress, taking place from January 26-29, 2015 in Dubai World Trade Center. The showroom incorporates 3 standard room types including a bedroom, bathroom and utility room, entirely designed and prefabricated by the Design Studio.