According to Lt Gen S K Kaul VSM, director and commandant, AFMC, contemporary healthcare architecture aims at dovetailing engineering concepts with creation of a soothing ambience that facilitates healing. Health care facilities should be designed to provide a pleasant, therapeutic, safe and restful environment for early recovery from illness.

According to Col U B Misra, professor and head, Department of Hospital Administration, AFMC, hospital architecture has undergone a qualitative shift towards creating a better healing environmental. This calls for evolving a design that links up infrastructure and equipment with workflow requirements to create a stress free and efficient environment for health care providers, including doctors, nurses and paramedical staff. The CME will focus on planning and designing of super specialty centres for fields such as joint replacement surgery, organ transplantation, oncology, robotic surgery, trauma management and bone marrow transplantation. This forum of interaction will enable better co - ordination amongst different agencies responsible for executing hospital projects.