Mobile hospital or field hospital is a large medical unit that provide medical services, and takes care of injured and sick people until they are not transferred to a permanent hospital facility. Mobile hospitals originally were organised in wars for the needs of the army. This concept was accepted and implemented in cases of natural disasters and massive accidents.
A mobile hospital is equipped with a medical kit and usually professional medical stuff is employed. The mobile hospital is organised in a large tent that or a container can be also used as a shelter. If it is an urban area than the mobile hospital will be organised in a building of a public character that has high visibility and accessibility. Restaurants, schools and other similar building from public character are often used for mobile hospitals.
There are many companies which are specialised in building mobile hospitals providing all the necessary equipment. From hospital furniture to hospital medical instruments, modern machines and apparatus, sterilization appliances, surgical instruments, bandages, blankets and all other necessities for one hospital to function and provide help when needed.
These days, mobile hospitals are far away from the ones we have seen on the movies. Modern mobile hospitals are armed with cutting-edge medical technology. They can accommodate for more than 300 people and provide medical help and support.
It is very much important these technologies for building mobile hospitals to develop further and better in order to help people when ever they have the need for a medical support.
Natural disasters strike every day, without any warning so being prepared is just playing on the safe side. Medical personnel also need to get training to work in a mobile hospital, to work in conditions that are different and maybe harder than a normal hospital facility. Although modern mobile hospitals have many features, facilities, machines and instruments to help people in need, working in a mobile hospital might mean working under restricted conditions and facilities.
The fact that someone works in a mobile hospital means that the circumstances are different than in normal situations. Whether it is a natural disaster, like flood, earthquake or a war, mobile hospitals should always be on their way and be able to build the facility fast in order to prevent loosing lives. We should be highly grateful to the modern technology and the people who work on these studies and methods for the possibilities of having these highly equipped mobile hospitals. Not always people had these facilities, instruments, machines and drugs that today’s mobile hospitals have to save lives. In the past mobile hospitals were just small tents, poorly equipped and lucking of medical stuff. The medical stuff had to fight diseases and treat injured virtually without anything. We have to be inspired by the many brave people who helped others and helped them to survive equipped only with their will and dedication to save lives.
