A team of eye specialists and architects at the University of Michigan (UM) have designed a pop-up eye care clinic built out of a shipping container, allowing it to be packed up and moved to anywhere in the world.
A collaboration between UM's Health Service, College of Architecture and Michigan Medicine Kellogg Eye Center, the self-contained clinic is built within a 20-by-8-foot customized shipping container called at architecturally repurposed container (ARC). The research team's current prototype clinic, dubbed CommonHealth+, was shipped to Sandy Bay, Jamaica in June where it was manned by a professor and small volunteer team.
In addition to being used to perform vision exams and dispensing eyewear, the mobile clinic will reportedly provide the Kellogg Eye Center with a unique platform to conduct research and train local residents in ocular testing and imaging.
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Source: University of Michigan