What is the largest thing carried?
A wheelchair, a stretcher, a small bed or a standard bed with attendants and equipment alongside it. This decides the car before anything else does.
Product
Specified around the bed, not the brochure
Hospital and stretcher lifts. Deep cabins, wide clear entrance, levelling a trolley can cross. From Rs 9,85,000 for the 1020 kg configuration.
A hospital lift needs a deep cabin, a wide clear entrance and a car that lands level every time. Get those three right and a trolley crosses the threshold without a bump. Get them wrong and no finish will fix it.
The published price is the 1020 kg small-bed configuration. 544 kg wheelchair and 1360 kg standard bed machines are engineered to order and quoted after survey. A 1200 mm telescopic opening is standard and inside the hospital price, not a per-landing upgrade.
General arrangement
What the building has to give the lift
A hospital machine is a machine-room product. The elevation shows the head room, the travel and the pit; the plan shows the lift well and the room above it, which must be at least 2500 mm wide and reached by its own stairs and access door. Pit and overhead for each configuration are in the table below.
Dimensional details
Four configurations, sized around what has to fit inside
A wheelchair, a stretcher, a small bed and a standard bed are four different cars, not one car with four labels. Tell us the bed and the corridor and we size the car around them.
| Type | Capacity | Car A | Car B | Well C | Well D | Clear entrance | Clear opening at landing | Overhead | Pit | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wheelchair | 544 kg | 1100 | 1300 | 1700 | 1850 | 800 | 920 × 2150 | 4200 | 1600 | 0.63 m/s |
| Stretcher | 750 kg | 1000 | 2100 | 1700 | 2500 | 800 | 920 × 2150 | 4400 | 1600 | 0.33 m/s |
| Small bed | 1020 kg | 1200 | 2100 | 1900 | 2500 | 900 | 1120 × 2150 | 4400 | 1600 | 0.35 m/s |
| Standard bed | 1360 kg | 1600 | 2400 | 2500 | 2800 | 1200 | 1420 × 2150 | 4400 | 1600 | 0.35 m/s |
Minimum dimensions shown, allow for sloping hoistways. Non-standard capacities are engineered to order, so tell us the bed and the corridor and we size the car around them.
Specifying it properly
Four questions that decide the machine
How wide is the widest trolley?
The clear opening has to pass it without the porter turning. 800 mm, 900 mm and 1200 mm are three different landing entrances and three different prices.
How many trips a day?
A ward lift and a diagnostics lift work at completely different rates. Rating the machine for the busy one is what keeps it running in year six.
Is it also a public lift?
If visitors share it, the door timing, the call logic and the finish all change. It is cheaper to decide this now than to retrofit it.
What is standard
What comes on every hospital machine
- Automatic rescue device, which brings the car to a landing and opens the doors on a power failure.
- Full-height light curtain across the opening, not a mechanical safety edge.
- Door interlocks at every landing.
- Overload protection and an alarm.
- Emergency light and intercom in the car.
- Levelling accurate enough that a trolley wheel crosses the sill without a jolt.
Built to IS 17900, the current Indian standard for lifts carrying persons and goods.
Where hospitals get caught
Three things worth checking on any quotation
The clear opening. A 1200 mm telescopic opening is standard on our hospital price and inside the number. On many quotations it is a per-landing extra, which on a G+4 building is five extras.
The rescue device. It is mandatory under the Lifts and Escalators Act 2024. If it appears on a quotation as an optional line, that tells you something about the vendor rather than about the lift.
The machine room. This is a machine-room product, and the room has to be at least 2500 mm wide with its own stairs and a 915 mm access door. That room is your civil cost. We state it before you order rather than after you have cast the slab.
Next
Where to go from here
Ask about this lift
Tell us the building. We will tell you the number.
A hospital lift is specified around the bed and the people who travel with it, not around the shaft you have left over. Tell us the trolley size and the corridor width and we will tell you the cabin.
- A free site survey. The drawings are yours whether or not you order.
- An itemised quotation, with the licence and the designer cabin already inside it.
- A written completion date, and interest paid by us if we miss it.
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