Shipping containers used as medical clinics are increasingly making it possible (and inexpensive) to provide high-quality healthcare to those living in rural locations. In the case of a community health crisis, these clinics also enable for the quick and easy deployment of emergency response teams.
Governments in India, Bhutan, and the Philippines are constructing “smart” container clinics. These clinics are outfitted with cutting-edge medical equipment and allow healthcare providers in rural areas to communicate with doctors at big hospitals through the cloud.
These smart clinics make it feasible to provide patients with not just basic treatment, but also remote medical examinations and diagnoses from healthcare professionals hundreds of kilometers away, even in poor, rural villages.
Thousands of lives have been saved thanks to container clinics that have been delivered to disaster zones. Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010, NGOs were eager to install trauma units. More than 30 000 people are thought to have been treated in a “Clinic in a Can,” according to estimates.
In Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia, instantly deployable modular isolation units made of shipping containers assisted in preventing the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.
To alleviate the consequences of the Gulf Oil Spill and Hurricane Katrina in the United States, portable medical clinics on flatbed trucks were on the road within hours.
What are some of the reasons why mobile medical clinics are so successful? They’re relatively inexpensive, and they’re mobile. Some reasons why mobile medical clinics are so effective? They’re comparatively inexpensive, mobilise and quick to deploy.
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