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Hospital elevator specifics

Stretcher capacity, infection-control, ICU-adjacent uptime — the spec details only hospital procurement asks.

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Hospital lifts are a separate buyer category. The technical specifics that matter for facility managers, biomedical engineers, and hospital construction consultants.

01 What's the minimum cabin size for a stretcher lift?
IS 14665 Class B requires 1,500 × 2,400 mm internal cabin minimum, 1,600 kg payload. That fits a standard stretcher with one attendant on each side. For ICU transfers with additional life-support equipment, we recommend 1,700 × 2,700 mm. The shaft requirement is ~1,800 × 2,800 mm respectively. We do both.
02 What is "code-blue priority recall"?
Optional integration with your hospital code-blue / cardiac-arrest alert system. When triggered, the cabin returns to ground floor, holds with doors open for the stretcher team, and locks out floor-call buttons until the priority is cleared. Integration is specced to your existing alert protocol (typically via dry-contact or low-voltage signal). Configured per install at no additional component cost; the integration engineering is included.
03 How long can you be without a hospital lift if it fails?
Realistically, 0 hours for ICU-adjacent and surgery-floor lifts — these need Premium 24×7 AMC with on-site spare-parts buffer. 4-hour tolerance for general patient-movement lifts on Comprehensive AMC. We strongly recommend ICU-adjacent lifts have a working sister lift in the same building to handle continuity; if you only have one stretcher lift, Premium 24×7 isn't optional.
04 What's an antimicrobial cabin and is it actually effective?
Yes — solid copper handles + button panel + antimicrobial powder-coat on cabin interior surfaces. Copper has demonstrated antibacterial and antiviral properties on contact (multiple peer-reviewed studies in hospital settings). Antimicrobial powder-coat reduces surface colonisation but isn't a substitute for cleaning. Real-world hospital infection-control benefit is measurable but modest; we ship it as default for hospital lifts not because it solves infection control alone, but because it's a meaningful contribution alongside cleaning and HVAC.
05 Are you empanelled with Apollo / Max / Fortis / Manipal / AIIMS?
Direct empanelment with three of the major chains across hospital-grade passenger and stretcher lifts. Active vendor evaluation for the remaining majors. Specific chain names shareable confidentially with verified hospital procurement contacts under NDA. GeM panel registration is live for AIIMS-network and state-government hospital procurement.
06 What documentation does a hospital actually need from a lift vendor?
IS 14665 (Class A or Class B) compliance certification, electrical-safety test report, load-test certificate, infection-control finish specification, AMC SLA template with response-time commitments, code-blue integration documentation if applicable, and the maintenance log template. We pre-format the pack to match major chain hospital QA templates; saves hospital QA 1-2 weeks of pack rework.
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