Alaska delivers mobile field hospital to Israeli Defense Forces

Alaska Structures and Bney Meir have delivered a newly developed mobile field hospital to the Israeli Defense Forces, as part of $3.5m contract aimed to increase medical preparedness and capacity of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF).

The Israeli field hospital (IFH) includes customised AKS deployable medical shelters, environmental control units, electrical systems, generators, as well as a medical oxygen concentrator system.

In addition to providing surgical and intensive care facilities, the portable IFH provides substantial inpatient care space including negative pressure isolation capability.

The IFH, which has life expectancy of minimum of at least 20 years, comprises 26 shelters of three different sizes, which can be interconnected into a single facility.

Compact for storage and transport, the hospital enables IDF to rapidly deliver a mobile hospital for provision of humanitarian care worldwide.
The IFH can be operated in three modes including united mode (with all shelters attached to each other), in a separate mode (with shelters not attached to each other) and in an intermediate mode (with only a portion of the IFH deployed and set up).

AKS and Bney Meir will also provide training for the IDF on setup and operation of the IFH infrastructure while the first training event is scheduled to commence during the first two weeks of December 2013.

Bney Meir, AKS’ official representative in the State of Israel, is an ISO-9000 certified, authorised supplier of the Israeli MoD and a certified service provider for AKS.