Containers 2 Clinics (C2C) seeks to reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality rates in the developing world by providing access to high-quality primary healthcare for women and children. We deploy shipping containers converted into clinics to areas with inadequate facilities and collaborate with local organizations and governments to provide clinical, laboratory, pharmacy, and health education services.

 

OBJECTIVES

-To reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality by:

-Providing access to quality health care for under-resourced, vulnerable women and children; and

-Filling infrastructure and programming shortfalls in the public health system.

-To create a sustainable solution by building expertise and accountability at the local level through partnership with national Ministries of Health and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

 

THE MODEL

C2C seeks to improve global access to primary care by extending services to women and children via quick-to-deploy shipping container clinics.

Once retrofitted for use as a health clinic, a shipping container is a durable, standardized, adaptable, secure structure with significant potential for replication and consistent care services.

C2C works with design teams to allow space for a small consultation room, small laboratory, pharmacy, and storage area, dependent on our local partners' needs.

The most common question we field about these clinics is their heat absorption. Rather than let a metal box become a slow cooker beneath a tropical sun, we make sure that our clinics are modified for exceptional ventilation, temperature control, and natural light.

While we are proud of our work to supply partners focused on maternal and child care with well-equipped clinical space, we are even more excited about the partnerships we build to sustain the clinics' staffing and pharmaceutical needs. C2C envisions a healthcare ecosystem in each community we enter, which each organization playing to the strengths of their primary value components. In addition to being more efficient and collaborative, this approach allows C2C to seek scale and replicate the model.

 

WHERE WE WORK

Our first clinic was opened in 2010 in one of the most resource-constrained environments in the world: Port-au-Prince, Haiti.