Hinduja Hospital, one of Mumbai’s leading private hospitals, is investing Rs 300 crore to quadruple the size of its facilities from 50,000 square feet to two lakh square feet.

The hospital will demolish its old building to replace it with a new environment-friendly facility. “The four storeyed old building has 50,000 square feet and is meant for outdoor patients. We will build a tower of 200,000 sq ft at the same location which would accommodate around 250-300 beds,” said Pramod H Lele, chief executive officer, Hinduja Hospital.

The investment is lower as the hospital already owns the land for the building. “The funding for the new construction will be done through fresh debt and internal accruals,” said Lele. He added the new building would be ready over the next one-and-a-half years or two.

The building to be demolished, houses the out patient department, cardio therapy, dialysis and oncology departments. The fourth floor is meant for director’s office and administrative staff. “We’ll shift all of these to an adjacent building for the time-being,” said Lele.

As part of its eco-friendly initiatives, the group plans to construct a green building using the latest technology. “Although the cost of construction for the green tower will be 8 to 10 per cent higher than usual buildings, it would save around 30-40 per cent of the cost when operational,” said Vivek Desai, chairman, CII Western Region Healthcare Sub-Committee and MD, Hosmac India. “Time has come to turn our hospitals into green buildings as these are energy guzzlers. Energy cost presently stands at an average of Rs 500 per bed per day. Use of efficient air-conditioning system, LED, CFL lamps, water harvesting, building automation systems are some of the major initiatives that hospitals can think about to be more energy efficient,” he added.