Mobile Medical Super Clinics

Smile of a Child and Friend Ships are coordinating efforts to build 36 new Mobile Medical Super Clinics some of which will be placed at TBN facilities in Africa, Central America and the Caribbean.  There are two clinics in each of the eighteen 20 foot clinic containers.

 

These clinics will be used to provide free of charge medical treatment for impoverished people.

 

  Super Clinics Loaded on ships...

  

Interior of a typical Super Clinic....The Super Clinics are well equipped, portable sea containers that are easily transportable aboard Friend Ships vessels or commercial ships.  Once in a country, they can be moved by truck to any location needed. 

 

The Super Clinic provides a temperature controlled, dust free, sterile environment that creates a secure and discreet atmosphere for treating patients.  The air conditioning helps medical staff to stay fresh and alert on long hot days in tropical climates.   It allows the patients to be as comfortable as possible while receiving treatment.

 

All equipment, supplies and medicine are housed within the clinic for quick access that allows medical providers to be effective and efficient with their time.

You can help by volunteering your time to help build Super Clinics...You can help us build a

Mobile Medical Super Clinic!

If you would like to volunteer to help us build the Super Clinics and are local to the Lake Charles community, please call our office at (337) 433-5022.  If you are not local to Lake Charles, and would like to travel to Port Mercy and stay aboard ship while you volunteer, please click here to download this application.  Please mail it to Friend Ships, Attn: Personnel Dept. at 1019 N. First Avenue, Lake Charles, LA  70601 or fax it to 504-273-2508.

 

   MEDICAL AND DENTAL EQUIPMENT NEEDS LIST FOR 36 SUPER CLINICS

Medical Clinics

** Exam tables **

** Glucometer (with accessory supplies of lancets -and test strips) **

** Blood Pressure cuff (assort. sizes: child, adult and oversize adult) **

** Stethoscope **

** Ophthalmoscope/Otoscope (with various sized probes) **

** Assorted hemostats, forceps and scissors necessary for small surgeries **

** Pen light **

** Small theatre light (in our 'procedure' exam room) **

** X-ray light (in our 'procedure' room) **

** Ambu-bag **

** Oxygen tank (with necessary masks and tubing) **

** Nebulizer **

** AED (defibrillator) **

** Autoclave **

 

 

 

 
Exterior picture of a typical Super Clinic...

Socking up supplies in medical containers...

Medical Super Clinic exterior picture...

 

Dental Clinics

** Head light for doctor **

** Brush to clean instruments **

** Blood pressure cuff **

** Portable suction machine **

** Portable hand piece **

** 5 plastic dish pans (total 95 ea) **

** 5 strainers for dish pans (total 95 ea) **

** 2 needle holder/suture (total 38 ea) **

** 2 suture scissors (total 38 ea) **

** 2 hemostats (total 38 ea) **

 ** 2 scalpel blade handles (total 38 ea) **

** 2 periostial elevators (total 38 ea) **

** 4 bone rasp/file (total 76 ea) **

** 2 rongeurs (total 38 ea) **

** 4 sets east/west elevators (total 76 ea) **

** 4 sets 50/51 elevators (total 76 ea) **

** 10 small straight elevators (total 190 ea) **

** 10 large straight elevators (total 190 ea) **

** 10 currettes (total 190 ea) **

** 8 #23 - cowhorn, forceps (total 152 each) **

** 6 cotton pliers (total 114 ea) **

** 12 mirrors (total 228 ea) **

** 8 #151 - lower universal, forceps (total 152 ea) **

** 8 #150 - upper universal, forceps (total 152 ea) **

** 3 sets #88L & 88R - upper posterior molar, forceps (total 57 ea) **

** 1 lower anterior Ashe forceps **

** 6 #210 upper posterior forceps (total 114 ea) **

** 12 dental syringes (total total 228 ea) **

 ** 12 dental chairs, workstations, lights, x-ray’s and x-ray viewer **

       

 


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