India’s healthcare sector is moving away from a capital-intensive model, adopting an asset-light approach through long-term leases. This shift allows for the rapid establishment of world-class medical centres in just a few months, said Varun Dubey, founder & CEO, Superhealth Hospitals, a new 50-bed facility in Bengaluru.
Our healthcare system is shifting away from distant, hard-to-reach ‘destination centres, where patients endure long drives and lengthy waiting times. Instead, it is implementing a hyperlocal model, bringing healthcare services within 5-10 minutes of densely populated communities. These structural changes like asset-light, hyperlocal, and ethically aligned infrastructure allow us to provide the highest quality care, making it easily accessible, and ensuring it remains both affordable and predictable, he added.
The scene for 50-bed hospitals in India is limited to a handful of single-specialty corporate setups. However, the general community healthcare centres of 50-bedded facilities lack essential diagnostic equipment, and are managed with clinical deficiencies. We constantly see poorly designed OTs (operation theatres), non-existent sterilization units, and a complete absence of rigor in infection control, all compounded by a total lack of transparency. This segment is currently defined by a broken promise, forcing patients to choose between inaccessible excellence and compromised local care. The reality is that the traditional 50-bed hospitals are on its last legs because this model is broken as care quality is poor and collapsing under the weight of its own deficiencies, noted Dubey.
Present healthcare infrastructure portrays an all pervasive digital revolution with AI-driven diagnostics, cloud-based imaging, zero-delay processes, and digital patient journeys are emerging as non-negotiable differentiators. The future lies in digitally connected, community-focused facilities that place the patient at the centre, not the paperwork. This trend is demonstrating that ethical, integrated, and high-quality care can be delivered efficiently, proving that the old, failing 50-bed model must be replaced by our agile, technologically superior system, said Dubey.
This is where Superhealth is a fundamental change to the status quo medical centres. We are transforming the doctor compensation model by doing away with commissions and surgery incentives to a fixed salary plus ESOP structure. In fact, Superhealth is India’s first hospital network designed to function with zero wait times and nil commissions, making us an essential alternative to the old guard, Dubey told Pharmabiz.
Soon after our first centre is operational at Koramangala in Bengaluru in a few weeks, we will foray into the next phase of rapid expansion right here. Plans are for five additional centres across key urban hubs to emerge as one of India’s largest single-city healthcare infrastructure investments of asset-light and tech-enabled model. Even as patients traditionally opt for large hospitals, we are proving that size is irrelevant when the system is built right. Factors that attract patients to such facilities are uniform, high quality care affordable accessible care with clinical intelligence and operational excellence, said Dubey.
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