Clinic Interior Cost in India (2026)

Rates by department

A worked BOQ: 1,600 sq ft polyclinic

Four consulting rooms, a dressing room, a small lab, reception and waiting, at ₹38.4 lakh — a weighted average of ₹2,400 per sq ft across the departments.

Clinic Cost Guide 2026

Costed by department, not by room

The specialist packages

Equipment against fit-out

In most clinical projects the equipment exceeds the fit-out, and the ratio is worth knowing before a budget is set.

Accreditation does not fail on the equipment. It fails on a square corner in a treatment room, a ledge above a door and a waste route that crosses the patient path — and fixing those afterwards closes the clinic while you do it.

Greenbox commercial fit-out lead

What moves the number

• Designing to NABH standards from the start — 8–14% on the interior package for coved junctions, sealed ceilings, separated clean and soiled routes and a compliant waste room. Retrofitting for accreditation costs several times that and closes the clinic.
• A bare shell instead of a warm one — ₹600–₹1,200 per sq ft for HVAC, toilets, flooring base and ceilings.
• Drainage that has to be created — a lab, a sluice or a dental chair a long way from the stack needs a raised plinth or a pumped waste, at ₹1.5–₹6 lakh.
• An electrical supply upgrade — imaging and HVAC together push a clinic well past a standard commercial load. ₹2–₹9 lakh and four to eight weeks.
• Pressure-zoned ventilation — positive in procedure rooms, negative in soiled utility and isolation. Adds ₹250–₹700 per sq ft to the affected areas and is the item most often discovered after the ceiling is closed.
• A second theatre — the panel system and the HVAC roughly double rather than scaling, because each theatre needs its own air handling.

Sequencing and cash flow

1. Feasibility first, and it is cheap. A shell survey covering drainage, electrical capacity, ventilation routes and access costs ₹30,000–₹1.2 lakh and it is the money that stops you signing a lease you cannot use.
2. The physicist before the wall. Where imaging is planned, the shielding calculation and the AERB submission precede the construction drawing. Six to ten weeks, running in parallel with design.
3. Services before finishes, always. Medical gas, pressure zoning, nurse call cabling and the UPS circuits all go in before any ceiling closes. Roughly 30% of the fit-out value falls here.
4. Equipment ordered at design stage. Imaging, sterilisers, dental chairs and OT lights all have eight to twenty week leads, and the room has to be built to the equipment’s actual dimensions and service requirements rather than to a catalogue assumption.
5. Finishes and joinery last, about 45% of the value, and fast once the services are signed off.
6. Commissioning and validation. Medical gas certification, OT air-change validation and an electrical safety test, all documented, because the licence inspection will ask for the certificates.

What this excludes

• 18% GST on the fit-out value, and GST on equipment separately.
• All medical equipment, which in most clinical projects exceeds the fit-out.
• Loose furniture — waiting seating, consulting chairs, examination couches.
• IT, HIS software, servers and networking, plus nurse call and attack alarm devices where the cabling only is in the fit-out.
• Licences and registrations — BMC or local health and trade licence, Clinical Establishments registration, biomedical waste authorisation, AERB approval for imaging, and their fees.
• The lease deposit and rent during fit-out.

Local rates and the design

Mumbai runs above these figures, and converted society premises bring their own constraints — see clinic interior cost in Mumbai. For flow separation, surface specification and the technical rooms behind these budgets, see clinic and hospital interior design.

Selected work by Greenbox Design Studio. Tap any image to enlarge.