Dornier Transportables Hospital

The Transportable Hospital was a development and diversification of Dornier Flugzeugbau for mobile modular sanitary facilities in standard multi-purpose containers up to a complete field hospital for the Bundeswehr and later also for civilian applications. Today the system is sold worldwide by EADS under the name TransHospital and is being built at the former Dornier site in Immenstaad .

The containers are equipped with medical and supply technology for specialist treatment, emergency care, operations, laboratories, dental treatment and other necessary infrastructure, such as B. X-rays or for patient care and can be put together individually or up to a complete clinic. All levels of medical treatment and medical care can be carried out according to the standards of inpatient hospitals.

Are used for larger space requirements, such. B. for emergency and operating stations also the so-called 1: 3 containers developed by Dornier, these are containers with extendable side spaces, which then practically form three contiguous containers. When pushed together for transport, they form the standard container dimensions. The interior fittings are arranged or fixed inside in such a way that the container can be pushed together and extended quickly without removing and installing interior fittings.

The containers meet minimum requirements for bombardment, are air-conditioned and protected against the ingress of gases and dust from outside by means of a slight overpressure. Special supply modules supply electricity, fresh water, collect the wastewater and, if necessary, treat it in an environmentally friendly manner. A set of medical modules in combination with the usual supply facilities / modules offers the capacity for up to 200 inpatients. In the case of the Bundeswehr deployment in Afghanistan to supply the ISAF troops, the length of stay of the patients is limited to 12 days, after which they may be flown to a Bundeswehr / home hospital. Such a mobile field hospital comprises up to 48 containers for a total of 21 medical functional units. The Bundeswehr also operates such containers / units on ships.

The use of such clinics as part of German aid after the tsunami in Indonesia or the tornado devastation on the Gulf of Mexico in the USA were spectacular , as was the Bundeswehr in Constance in June 2008 after a fire in the hospital there, a complete operating wing consisting of 15 containers as emergency aid has set up on loan to rebuild the fixed operating theaters.

prehistory

In response to a tender by the BMVg / BWB , Dornier and its development team, which was underutilized after the end of the Alpha Jet development, developed the system of multi-purpose containers for the Bundeswehr, but lost series production to the cheaper manufacturing company Zeppelin GmbH in Friedrichshafen (whose legal successor the ZEPPELIN MOBILE SYSTEME GmbH in Meckenbeuren), which u. a. Manufactured silos and sold construction machinery. However, Dornier continued the developments in the use and equipment of the containers as an easily and quickly relocatable, autonomous carrier for facilities and tent replacement for many applications and was thus able to keep its development team together for future aircraft projects. In the mid-1970s, the concept for a modular field hospital was presented and offered to the Bundeswehr. The medical equipment was provided by BINZ from Lorch , an outfitter for ambulances and ambulances. The Bundeswehr ordered a prototype system, now has over 250 such medical containers in use and could put together five field hospitals. Further buyers are four other armies / countries.

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^ Philipp Zieger: Konstanz: When the clock stopped: Ten years ago the Konstanz clinic burned down. In: suedkurier.de. June 3, 2018, accessed May 17, 2020 .

[1] Philipp Zieger: Konstanz: When the clock stopped: Ten years ago the Konstanz clinic burned down. In: suedkurier.de. June 3, 2018, accessed May 17, 2020 .