Look: UAE to send two shipping containers turned into health clinics to Guinea-Bissau
The clinics were built at Dubai's Jebel Ali port from standard 20ft cargo containers and are fully equipped with medical facilities, according Intertrade International Services (IIS).
IIS is the company manufacturing these clinics and it will ship four similar units in total to the West African nation, with the other two manufactured in Europe.
The mobile clinic includes everything one would find in a standard facility, with a water purification system, a patient bed, a storage area, and even a hydraulic lift on the side to lift people on wheelchairs.
'These clinics are mobile systems that can go to the people who do not have that opportunity to go,' Gianfranco Esposito, managing director of IIS, said. 'It will be moving in areas where people don't manage to get to hospitals.' He added that the host country, Guinea-Bissau, requested for the clinics via the World Health Organization.
The last similar mission by IIS included the delivery of nine medical mobile clinics to Port Sudan, an eastern Sudanese city. They included seven 40ft containers and two 20ft containers which were turned into clinics, with the former accommodating a separate compartment for infants, children, pregnant women, and a medical laboratory clinic.
IIS works mainly with the UN to provide humanitarian aid, vehicles, logistics, etc. It has offices in the UAE, Switzerland, and Italy.
The mobile was showcased at the Dubai International Humanitarian Aid and Development Conference, a three-day event that took place from April 29 to May 1.
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