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Mobile Clinics Project

Vans and cells equipped for medical emergencies

20/12/2012


Missionland has furbished nearly a dozen mobile clinics. The specific task that will be performed dictates the equipment, the tools and the layout.



The project

One important feature of our clinics is that they are fully energy independent. They are equipped with a solar system powering a water pump for the washbasin, a refrigerator for medicines, air conditioner, inside and outside lighting, computers and all electrical devices.

The clinics can serve different purposes. They can be taken to remote areas, far from hospitals or dispensaries such as small villages in rural or mountain areas. These can associate to extend service to a wider population. The clinic may stay in one place for a few days and provide visits, small surgery, screening, health and/or nutritional education, etc. The clinic can be taken to a scholar complex for screening and prevention campaigns, or to manufacturing plants for occupational medicine.

Main objectives

The Mobile Clinics Project was initially designed thinking of the healthcare badly needed by the people living in remote areas of West Africa, where healthcare facilities are few, inadequate, often dilapidated, unsanitary and lacking medications. Anyone falling ill must travel long distances with makeshift transports to find medical care, often unaffordable.

We could also see that the clinics can be effectively employed in our areas as well, where health authorities, municipalities and regional authorities can organize screening and information campaigns on a large scale and at limited cost.

Inside a mobile clinic
Migrant crisis, Lesbos. Emergency response: the R4A medical team
Mobile Clinics - Doctors at work in African villages
Interior of a mobile clinic
Migrant crisis, Lesbos. Emergency response: the R4A medical team
Interior of a mobile clinic
Asiago, Italy - Medical station for the Triathlon World Championship
Civil Protection team at the 2020 Triathlon World Championship
Mobile clinic headed to Albania for earthquake relief operation
Mobile clinic being driven to Senegal on the Missionland 21 journey
Missionland 21 - The arrival in Kassak, Senegal
A mobile clinic arriving in Lunsar, Sierra Leone,during the Ebola crisis
Sierra Leone - Stopping at a checkpoint for Ebola
Sicily - A mobile clinic being loaded aboard m/s Elpis
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone
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