Packaged hospitals get second chance in the Third World.
They're products of the Cold War that fortunately were never needed. Prepackaged disaster hospitals, civilian M.A.S.H. units containing everything needed to create a 200-bed hospital except an exterior structure, have been packed away in crates since the '50s and '60s. But the hospitals-in-a-box are being shipped to less-developed countries where even the 30-year-old equipment often is a big improvement over what's currently available.
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D003906:Developing Countries; D004865:Equipment and Supplies, Hospital / Q000600:supply & distribution; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006775:Hospitals, Packaged / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D007391:International Cooperation; D014481:United States