title: Packaged hospitals get second chance in the Third World.
abstract: 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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authors: Taravella
mesh_terms: 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