Has started two business verticals, KEF Infra and KEF Health
KEF Holdings, a multinational holding company that specialises in innovative offsite construction technology, announced the launch of their India business operations with investments of more than Rs 1,500 crores to be made over the next five years through its two business verticals, KEF Infra and KEF Health.
KEF Health aims to reduce the cost of healthcare through industrialising infrastructure, creating evidence-based care paths and promoting disruptive healthcare technology. The pilot project for KEF Health is the 500-bed tertiary care, PMHP Hospital in Calicut, Kerala, for cardiology, orthopedics and neurosciences.
A joint venture with the PeeKay Group of Kerala and eminent cardiologist, Dr Ali Faizal, the hospital is designed using precast and modular construction technology. This will allow the project to be completed in 16 months, or half the time that traditional construction methods would take. Reportedly, KEF is also working with a team of eminent doctors and technology experts from the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic (USA), who also serve on the KEF Health Board of Directors, to ensure affordable care is available and provided at the hospital.
The hospital is also expected to benefit from KEF’s collaboration with Australian firm Total Alliance Health Partners International (TAHPI), who are leaders in the design of medical facilities and health planning, and have authored guidelines for medical facilities for the Indian Government.
KEF Health will make the infrastructure model available to healthcare operators across the country to ensure the development of similar high-quality medical facilities in India. KEF Holdings operates a highly integrated business model. The company’s primary operations seamlessly cooperate to design and implement innovative and effective projects that can be successfully replicated across industries.
Faizal E Kottikollon, Founder-Chairman of the Singapore-based KEF Holdings, said, “In line with the government’s ‘Make in India’ vision, KEF Holdings is committed to supporting change by focusing on three basic needs – infrastructure, education and healthcare. KEF will change infrastructure development in the country by bringing in best practice, technologies and processes from across the world and integrating them to offer assured quality and a significant reduction in time and money.”
EH News Bureau