Choosing a hospital lift in Sasaram is not the same as choosing a lift for a flat or an office. A patient on a bed, a woman in labour, or a person on oxygen cannot wait on the stairs. Eldeal Engineers plans, installs and services bed lifts and stretcher lifts for hospitals, nursing homes, maternity centres and diagnostic centres across Sasaram and the wider Rohtas district.
Our corporate office is on Old G.T. Road in Sasaram, behind Kali Sthan, so the engineers who survey your building are the same local team who will look after the lift for years. Healthcare clients we have worked with in the area include Narayan Medical College & Hospital in Jamuhar, Samarpan Hospital and Janata Nursing Home in Sasaram, and RDMH Hospital in Mohania.
What a hospital lift in Sasaram has to handle
Most private hospitals in Sasaram follow a familiar layout: casualty, OPD and pharmacy on the ground floor, wards on the upper floors, and the operation theatre or ICU somewhere in between. The lift is the link between all of them. On a typical day it carries patients on beds and stretchers, wheelchairs, oxygen cylinders, food trolleys, linen and a steady stream of relatives.
Many nursing homes in the town also work out of buildings that were first built as houses or shops. That usually means a tight staircase, limited space for a shaft and floor heights that were never planned for a lift. A good design starts with those limits, not with a catalogue.
Bed lift, stretcher lift or both?
The single biggest decision is the car size. The table below shows how hospitals usually split the job. Figures are typical industry ranges and are indicative only.
| Lift type | Suits | What it must carry | Typical capacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stretcher lift | Nursing homes of two to four floors | Stretcher or wheelchair plus one attendant | 8–13 persons (544–884 kg) |
| Bed lift | Hospitals with IPD wards, ICU or OT upstairs | Full hospital bed plus two attendants | 15–20 persons (1020–1360 kg) |
| Visitor lift | Any hospital with heavy family traffic | Relatives, staff and OPD patients | 8–10 persons (544–680 kg) |
Where space and budget allow, we suggest keeping the bed lift for patients and giving visitors their own passenger lift. For medicines, samples and meal trays, a small dumbwaiter lift keeps that traffic out of the patient car.
Doors, speed and cabin
- Doors: wide automatic doors, usually telescopic side-opening, because they give a wide clear opening from a narrower wall.
- Speed: around 0.5 to 1.0 m/s is common for low-rise hospitals; taller buildings may go higher. Smooth starts matter more than top speed.
- Cabin: stainless steel walls that can be wiped and disinfected, handrails, and bumper rails to protect walls from bed knocks.
- Space: car depth follows your actual beds and trolleys, including wheels and head and foot boards. Measure them before the survey.
More detail on car sizes and features is on our main hospital elevator page.
Power cuts, generators and patient safety
Power interruptions are a fact of life in many Bihar towns, and a stalled car with a patient inside is an emergency. Every hospital lift we install has an Automatic Rescue Device (ARD). If mains power fails, it moves the car to the nearest landing and opens the doors. We also advise on connecting the lift to your generator so that it can keep working through longer outages.
Other standard safety items include a full-height light curtain on the doors, an overload sensor with voice prompt, an intercom, an alarm and emergency lighting. The V3F drive gives gentle acceleration and stops level with the floor, so trolley wheels do not catch on a step.
What decides the cost
A hospital lift costs more than a standard passenger lift of the same floor count because the car, doors and machine are bigger. The main cost drivers are car size and capacity, the number of floors, door type and width, cabin finish, and the civil work needed to create or enlarge a shaft. Ongoing costs depend on the AMC you choose. We do not publish a fixed price for hospital lifts, because two nursing homes on the same road can need very different solutions. Our Sasaram lift price guide explains how quotes are built.
Rules that apply in Bihar
The Bihar Lift and Escalator Bill, 2024 was passed by the Bihar Assembly on 2 August 2024. It covers registration, inspections, mandatory maintenance, third-party insurance and replacement or major upgrade of lifts after about 20 years. As per BIS, IS 17900, harmonised with EN 81-20 and EN 81-50, became mandatory for new lift installations from 22 December 2025. It stresses unintended car movement protection (UCMP), ascending car overspeed protection (ACOP) and ARD. The National Building Code 2016, Part 8 Section 5 sets building-side lift requirements, such as fire lifts in taller buildings. Please confirm current notifications with your architect and the local authority. Our article on hospital lift requirements covers these in more depth.
How we run a hospital lift project
- Free site survey: we measure the shaft or proposed shaft, pit and headroom, and walk the patient route from casualty to OT.
- Design: car size, doors, speed and drive are matched to your beds and patient flow, with a clear written quote.
- Supply: design-tested lift equipment is delivered in stages to suit your storage space.
- Installation and testing: our team inspects the work at each stage, then tests the lift under load before handover.
- Handover: we brief your ward boys and nursing staff on safe loading and what to do in a power cut.
- AMC: scheduled servicing and 24/7 breakdown support from Sasaram.
In a working hospital we barricade the site, keep dust away from wards and agree daily timings with your administrator.
Keeping the lift available
A hospital cannot plan around a lift that stops every few weeks. We recommend a comprehensive AMC so that parts and labour are covered and servicing stays on schedule. See our lift AMC plans in Sasaram for what each plan includes.
Building, extending or upgrading a hospital or nursing home in Sasaram? Book a free site survey with our local team. Call or WhatsApp +91 84489 44342 or +91 62077 91650, or visit our office on Old G.T. Road.