Shreedhar Vastu
Shreedhar Vastu
Hospitafls and medical centers are the key factors in national health systems, and
consume a large share of spendings. Hospitals provide a valuable contribution to building a stronger
health system and a healthy community. Their health activities include monitoring health status,
investigating health problems, educating and informing individuals about the prevention of diseases, and
promoting sound health.
Creating a comfortable and holistic space for patients to get well again is integral in ensuring that
they will leave the hospital with positive feedback. Every hospital has different specialties that must
be considered while designing a layout as per Vastu Shastra.
The importance of hospital design as per Vastu is not often discussed, but it’s an
important element to consider for the people that you serve. When designing a new hospital or renovating
the current one with limited space and budgeting constraints do your best to incorporate these
principles in order to make patients feel calm and safe during their stay while also feeling more at
home when they come back after their recovery.
Healthcare management is actively seeking out ways to improve their clinical outcomes. One way they have
found this year is by adding in natural landscapes for both interior and exterior designs of the
building where people are receiving care.
Surrounding the hospital (External Vastu)
The Shape of the hospital
Entrance to the hospital
The waiting area as well as reception
Admission area , Consulting room location
Patient room and their sleeping directions
Operation theatre location, Doctor’s consulting room
Medical room
Worship area
Lift and staircase area
Meditation Room
ICCU area
Landscape and Plantations
Restroom and toilets
Canteen as well as locker room
Administrative Office, billing section, and record room
Storeroom for medical supplies
Garbage scrap area
If you have visited a friend or a relative in a hospital, chances are you brought
them fresh flowers or a plant.
Why?
A plant is a sure way to make someone smile and heal. These plants are more than just decorations, they
have the capacity to bring joy and release tension in people’s lives by boosting their moods or soothing
aches and pains from illness. Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are
sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul.
Healing happens inside the hospital. Hospitals, clinics, or medical centers should be designed in such a
way that it has a blend of natural Vastu elements. These elements can be in the form of water features
(Element-water), natural lighting (element fire), landscaping (element earth & space) with a beautiful
plantation(element-wind), healing paintings, etc. “Adding plants to hospital rooms speeds recovery rates
of surgical patients” – according to researchers at Kansas State University.
Adding natural elements like live plants can make the hospital a more relaxing place for patients and
their families as well as employees. Indoor plants transform a hospital stay.
Plants naturally filter the air of harmful chemicals and other toxins that could otherwise make it
unsafe to breathe. Plants in hospitals can also combat SBS (sick building syndrome), boost humidity
levels which decrease cough-inducing dry air.
Research shows that patients who had plants and flowers in their hospital room recovered significantly
faster from surgery, required less pain medication, experienced lower levels of anxiety and fatigue
during recovery time. Patients were more satisfied with the cleanliness of the facility as well since
there was such a relaxing atmosphere overall throughout each day they spent at the medical center.
Visitors and patients often find hospital environments dull and uninviting.
Artwork of natural landscapes, Animals, birds, water bodies, mountains, etc. makes them feel warmer,
more positive, and less painful. These artworks with a positive element promote space healing. When a
person is closer to that painting, a subconscious mind picks up the message from the picture.
A British paper demonstrated art’s “positive effects not only on patient well being but also on health
outcomes such as length of stay in hospital and pain tolerance.” According to Michael Mullions,
Co-author of a recent study on hospital art in the International Journal of Qualitative studies in
health and wellbeing The view that art can have beneficial effects on patient recovery is generally
accepted nowadays. It is also documented that art can reduce the experience of pain through distracting
the patient’s attention.”
Every hospital should have a space for prayer. In Vastu, it is called a
tranquility zone. Research shows that prayer makes people better, heal faster, get out of the hospital
faster, and also suffer less.
Dr. Randolph Byrd, a cardiologist from San Francisco General Hospital, had conducted a study on the
therapeutic value of prayer that was designed to stand up to scientific analysis. Over a 10-month
period, a computer randomly assigned 393 patients in the hospital’s coronary-care unit either to a group
that was prayed for (192 patients) or to a group not remembered in prayer (201 patients).
The results were impressive and statistically significant: The prayed-for patients were found five times
less likely to require antibiotics and three times less likely to suffer lung complications.
