About Hospitainer

Hospitainer designs and produces container-based & mobile medical facilities. Modular units, built-in containers and tents. To be shipped easily worldwide.  

Broad range turn-key, mobile healthcare solutions, like: 

  • Field hospitals, surgical units (‘hospitrailers’) 
  • Maternity units (‘Maternitainers’)  
  • Diagnostic & laboratory modules: x-ray, CT, ultrasound 
  • Maintenance and supply support 

The solutions are: 

  • Mobile 
  • Turn-key 
  • Plug-and-play 
  • Tested  
  • Fully equipped before shipped 

Misson and vision

Make quality healthcare accessible anywhere, at any time. ‘The right medical care at the right place and the right time.’ Strengthening health system resilience in LMIC’s, by working together and in partnership with (local) governments, NGO’s. A bridge between emergency relief and long-term care.

Collaborations with GHH-partners

  • Philips: one of the partners that work alongside each other in Ukraine, to rebuild health care infrastructure (mobile hospitals, container hospitals, equipment etc) 
  • Task Force Health Care: see Philips 
  • UNFPA: among others; maternity care in Gaza, Maternitainer units in Gaza 
  • Mercy Ships: project building a dockside station in Madagascar 
  • IMC (International Medical Corps): Rapid Mobile Surgical Units (RMSU) in Gaza to aid IMC’s field hospital 
  • Alpheios: long-term collaboration – providing cleaning kits, hygiene support etc. 
  • European Regional Development Fund: ‘Hospivessel’ project: a container based floating hospital 

Overview characteristics

Active in countries 

  • Gaza: Rapid mobile Surgical Units (RMSU) to expand the IMC field hospital: enabling +8-10 surgeries daily, maternity care: refitted maternity container (Maternitainer) and deployed for neonatal care. 
  • Ukraine: Mobile hospitals and medical imaging support – donated by Dutch government. 
  • Mozambique: constructed 5 containers into surgical clinic – expanding existing UNFPA facility. 
  • Madagascar: dockside station for Mercy Ships  
  • Turkey & Syria: after earthquakes, a 112-bed hospital – urgency response 
  • Sierra Leone: Ebola units for the Lion Heart Foundation – urgency/ebola response 
  • Italy/Europe/High Income countries: COVID field hospitals, CT/diagnostic units (high income means adding to high income settings like cleanrooms, CT, extra’s) 
  • Bahamas: after hurricane Dorian; mobile clinics – urgency response 
  • Congo: Mobile maternity (maternitainer) & mobile hospital units 

Claim: hospitainer has worked in 30+ countries. 

Community of Practices (CoP) 

  • CoP1: Strengthening Health systems 

Themes Hospitainer and subthemes in CoP 

  • Infrastructure & service delivery: core operations are deployment of mobile and container-based medical units, field hospitals, diagnostics and imaging in conflict and fragile environments. 
  • Access to primary health care / SRHR: maternitainers and mobile hospitals 
  • Digital innovation/technology: hospitainer works with plug-and-play, including diagnostic modules and integrated tech (imaging, data systems) 
  • Partnerships & sustainable care: works with multiple different parties such as governments, NGO’s and private sector, in projects often designed to be reusable and maintainable long term.

Available resources 

Knowledge & expertise 

  • Mobile & modular health infrastructure design 
  • Emergency & fragile contexts  
  • Integration of SRHR & primary health care 
  • Tech, innovation & engineering 

Networks & alliances & partnerships:

UNFPA, IMC, Mercy Ships, Philips, Task Force Health Care, Invest International, GHH, Hospitainer Foundation 

Policy, advocacy, convening power:

Demonstrating scaleable infrastructure, government collaborations (ministry of health, national disaster agencies – UN partners), sector visibility (policy events like task force health care) 

Financial resources/grant access/funding:

hybrid model – both commercial and donor-based. Collaborations with RVO, Invest International and ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) 

Contactinformation Hospitainer

Website: https://hospitainer.com/