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this, but also a modular facility that can be set up in any configuration in response to need. MSF’s inflatable hospital was used after the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan, the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and in the Philippines after typhoon Haiyan. The MSF inflatable hospital has: two surgical uniits; a recovery area; an intensive care unit; an emergency room; rehabilitation services. This represents a logistics load of 45 tons of equipment
n , which required 3
days to convert into an operational field hospital. While the field hospital is being erected, the components are shipped by air and sea. In the case of Haiti, MSF's cargo was diverted to the Dominican Republic and was then transported by truck to Port-au-Prince. The equipment included
plastic flooring, tents,
generators, communications equipment and beds, as well as surgical medicine.[8]
equipment, diagnostic machines The 100-be ed inflatable hospital requires 900m of space, 2
and is erected on plastic flooring, which requires the floor to be flat, which can be difficult in a hilly country such as Ha
aiti. After the flooring and tents wer
down, electricity, water and sanitation systems installed. At the location in Haiti, water was accessed equire
from a nearby water tower. The field hospital will re at least 26 gallons per bed each day. Two generators, 30 and 60 kV, provided electricity with fuel transported from Santo Domingo, 230 miles away. There were 30 en the
re laid were
Figure 5: TheAfrica Mercy 2.
The process
doctors and medical personnel working shifts. Whe number of patients increases beyond the capacity of the current hospital, they inflated six additional tents with an additional 200 beds. Medical supplies were supplied weekly by a central pharmacy established in the area and by sea freight. [8]
1.2 FLOATING HOSPITALS
The Africa Mercy (Figure 5) at 152m Loa is the world’s largest NGO floating hospital. As a floating hosp ital, it can sail dire
deliver life -saving medical care and provide safe, state- It has 5
of-the-art facilities in which to
ectly to some of the world’s poorest people to tre at them.
operating theatres with 82 patient beds, supported by up to 474 crew. With 75% of the world’s population living within 150km of a port city, it facilitates people who live with little or no healthcare in some of the poorest parts of s safe,
2 services.
air conditioners, and
tr ansform the lives of more service operatted
the poorest countries of the world since 1978. [9] T he 2013 field pr
e than 2.42 million people in in Guinea and Congo
rofessionals trained and mentored; 1143 trained through mentoring and leadership pr
roviding: 37,463 dental procedures; 2,863 life-changing surgeries; 7114 medical co pr
rofessionals); 1971 patients & care-givers trained in community health educatio agriculture. [10]
onsultations; 908 health care courses
(non-healthcare on; 64 trained in nutritional
DESIGN-DRIVEN
N INNOVATION of Design-Driven Innovation is the user has for an
exploratory research project, which aims to create an entirely new market sector for a given product through changing the design meaning pr
the
roduct. It occurs before product development, as shown in Figure 6, and is not the fast creative brainstorming sessions that are typical of concept generation but a design investigation similar to technological research. In essence, it is the development of a design scenario in is
through engaging technology and with cultural
the interpreter's groups. The the client
a
range of interpreters production. Knowledge
generated from immersion with the design discourse of e process can be structured or
unstructured and is dependent upon the nature of the relationship of
with
interaction between innovation of design meaning and technology innovation can ttransform the market within an industry and even create new market sectors.
the world. This hospital on a ship platform provides clean, controlled environment, ideally suited for both patients and crew. The hospital covers approx 1,2 00 m ,housing state-of-the-art equipment that includes a CT scanner as well as X-ray and laboratory
Whenever necessary, information can be transmitted almost instantaneously
via
consultation with doctors back in the UK. The ves operated by the charity Mercy Ships who arre an international, faith-based organisation with a miss ion to increase access
an onboard satellite for ssel is
to health care throughout the world,
serving the poor regardless of race, gender or religion. The volunteer team of nurses, doctors, surgeons, and other crew members from all over the world, have helped
Figure 6: Design-Driven Innovation as research [11] The two strategies are complimentary as technological evolving together in innovation cycles. The successful
and socio-cultural models are inextricably linked, © 2015: The Royal Institution of Naval Architects C-165 the interpreters. T he
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