From Shipping Container to Healthcare Clinic

Innovative  project converting surplus shipping containers into medical clinics for people in the developing world. Why waste a good office space? 
In many places in the world, shipping containers are used for  phone booths, food stores, and more… 

A shipping container, once retrofitted for use as a health clinic, is a durable, standardized, adaptable, secure structure with significant potential for replication and consistent care services. The interior of an industrial shipping container can be renovated to allow space for a small consultation room, a small laboratory, an office for staff, and storage and inventory space. Modified for ventilation, light, and utility connections, a container clinic provides a personalized, local-level venue for community members to seek treatment services or preventive health education.

~ by yorubawoman on March 26, 2009.