MEDICAL GAS SUPPLY AND INSTALLATION
Supporting civilian floating hospital’s critical mission
When healthcare construction expert, MIG Medical, was approached to work on the renovation of the Global Mercy ship – the world’s largest civilian hospital ship providing free healthcare to people in desperate need from the poorest countries – the team had all the expertise in place to support this flagship project. Group director, Sam Mitten, discusses MIG’s involvement in ensuring that the ship can enable vital treatment to be carried out on a daily basis – now, and into the future, and offers insight on some of the other integral healthcare projects the team has recently completed for a range of ‘medically pioneering ‘clients.
HEJ: “Firstly, who are MIG Medical?” Sam Mitten: “Our team and I are experts in healthcare engineering and construction. We’re based in Altrincham in Cheshire, and the installations we deliver include both modular and traditional turnkey projects. We also offer specialist construction services within both the public and private healthcare sectors, and truly understand the importance of facilities having healthcare solutions that are seamless, efficient, and completed on budget and on time. Our level of combined expertise ensures that professionals within the healthcare sector receive the best results for their patients and staff – through strategic engineering works and expert project management. “Our specialist team has worked on a wide range of different projects, both home, and away, and we’re no strangers to operating on sea, as well as land. Similarly to what we’ve done on the Global Mercy ship, we carried out works on the RFA Argus. When it was docked in Birkenhead, our team went aboard the auxiliary ship to carry out a full medical fit-out and gas pipeline system installation. “Overseas, meanwhile, we’ve worked on medical gas pipelines across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. For instance, at
Qatar’s Sidra Hospital, our team undertook a full removal of a non-compliant medical gas pipeline system, and installed a new one, that serves the whole of the 400-bed hospital. Similarly, at the Seychelles’ Victoria Hospital, a completely new medical gas pipeline was installed – serving every area from plant rooms, up to the wards. “Back in the UK, we’ve installed gas pipeline systems at many different NHS and private healthcare settings, including Manchester Royal Infirmary and Royal Lancashire Infirmary. For the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan, which has 513 beds providing a base for emergency and acute work, we were asked to help replace the pendant hoses to the hospital’s medical gas pipelines, which the facility is required to do around every 3-5 years. And so, whether it’s a full redesign and installation of gas pipelines, or simply updating one
Right: MIG Medical gas pipeline design and fit-out on board the Global Mercy ship’s Intensive Care Unit.
Below: A side view of the Global Mercy ship docked at Port Granadilla, Tenerife.
part, we are trusted by NHS Trusts and international healthcare organisations to deliver these complex yet vital systems. “Because of this experience, and our
collective pool of technical knowledge, we are the first port of call when a brief arises for a truly unique project; this was certainly the case when we were recommended for the Global Mercy ship project by medical consultancy firm, MJ Medical, as the preferred specialist contractor.”
HEJ: “Who are Mercy Ships?” SM: “When it came to working with Mercy Ships, we were under no illusion as to how important this project was in the delivery of improved healthcare on a worldwide scale. Mercy Ships is an international development organisation that deploys hospital ships to some of the world’s poorest countries to deliver vital, free
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