From Patient Care to Planet Care: How IHH Healthcare is Redefining Healthcare Sustainability
04 December 2024
IHH Healthcare, one of the world’s largest private healthcare groups, is harnessing its unique global reach to deliver cutting-edge healthcare while championing sustainability.
Hospitals are significant contributors to greenhouse gas emissions due to their 24/7 operations, handling of hazardous materials, and reliance on disposables. But IHH believes it can turn this challenge into an opportunity for positive change.
“As a global healthcare provider operating across 10 countries and touching millions of lives each year, we have a responsibility to do more – and we must,” said Dr Prem Kumar Nair, Group CEO of IHH Healthcare. “Our aspiration to Care. For Good. drives us to deliver world-class care with empathy, while we actively build a more sustainable world for generations to come.”
IHH is transforming patient care by offering exceptional clinical outcomes with faster, easier and more accessible solutions. As Asia’s first private healthcare provider to introduce Value-Based Care, IHH is leading the way in delivering cost-effective treatment without compromising quality.
In 2022, IHH laid out time-bound, measurable sustainability goals and targets, aiming to be the most trusted private healthcare provider in all its markets by 2025 and to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 by focusing on energy, waste and water management.
Yasemin Stubbe, IHH’s Group Head of Sustainability, explains, “Planet health and human health are inseparable. Climate change isn’t just about polar bears and melting ice caps—it impacts our well-being directly.”
IHH is accelerating clean energy adoption, installing rooftop solar panels across its Malaysian hospitals by 2026 and launching a large-scale solar project in Türkiye that is expected to supply up to 80% of Acibadem’s electricity. IHH has also cut single-use virgin plastics in non-clinical areas by up to 99% in Singapore and Malaysia and is reducing environmentally harmful anaesthetic gas emissions in key markets like Malaysia, Singapore, Türkiye, India and Hong Kong.
Beyond environmental efforts, IHH is also tackling some of the most pressing public health issues, from advocating responsible use of antibiotics to reducing disease burden through education, innovation, and improving healthcare access for underserved communities through outreach and medical interventions.
Dr Nair concluded, “Sustainability is not a buzzword but our long-term commitment to achieve meaningful, lasting change.
“This is what healthcare leadership looks like - leveraging our global expertise and footprint to transform care and shape a sustainable future.”
Watch IHH’s sustainability story unfold in this video. Learn how IHH is driving positive change
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A world-leading integrated healthcare provider, IHH believes that making a difference starts with our aspiration to Care. For Good.
Our team of more than 70,000 people commit to deliver greater good to our patients, people, the public and planet, as we live our purpose each day to touch lives and transform care.
Through our portfolio of trusted brands – Acibadem, Mount Elizabeth, Prince Court, Gleneagles, Fortis, Pantai and Parkway – we offer our patients comprehensive and personalised care ranging from primary to quaternary, and even ancillary services such as laboratory, diagnostics, imaging and rehabilitation.
With our scale and reach in 10 countries, we continue to raise the bar in healthcare in our key markets of Malaysia, Singapore, Türkiye, India, Greater China (including Hong Kong) and beyond.
In partnership with our stakeholders, we will co-create a sustainable future for all as we work towards our vision to become the world’s most trusted healthcare services network.
More information can be found at www.ihhhealthcare.com.
