Mobile health station

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Mobile health clinic
Mobile health clinic

As the name suggests, a mobile health station is a health care unit that —

  • (A) is constructed, maintained, and capable of being transported within a semi-trailer truck or similar vehicle;
  • (B) is equipped for the provision of 1 or more specialty health care services; and
  • (C) can be equipped to be docked to a stationary health care facility when appropriate.

Benefits[edit | edit source]

The mobile health clinics allow access to remote areas, and bring care to where it is needed. They play an important role in screening, and for outreach activities to serve rural, or remote communities, disaster relief, and emergency response.

Mobile clinics[edit | edit source]

In many developing countries, and in some developed countries, it is not uncommon to see trucks, vans, buses, or other vehicles, converted in to a mobile health station and taken to remote areas to help patients.

Ambulance[edit | edit source]

An ambulance is one type of mobile health station although the purpose of the ambulance is to transport to the nearest healthcare facility, it does have basic medical equipment to help the patients.

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