River hospital container ship

News 12 Jan 2022 by WCN Editorial

German Naval Yards and its French affiliate CMN have come up with a design for a hospital ship to move patients according to medical need

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GNY in Kiel owns Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie (CMN) and they are part of Privinvest European shipyards group.

The concept provides for a hospital vessel for inland navigation and sailing from one navigable river to another. Hospital vessels are already in service with various militaries and emergency response organizations dealing with natural disasters, but they have to be assembled or disassembled each time, meaning critical time delays in deployments.

The Kiel shipyard has now come up with a “possible European solution.” The plans for the vessel show a length overall of 80m, beam of 11.40m and draft of 1.50m, with facilities for 36 critically ill patient beds, including ICU beds, in modular containers for easy loading and unloading.