Containers to Clinics

Recycling + Healthcare = Hope

What would you do with a global surplus of shipping containers? If you’re Elizabeth Sheehan, you use a lifetime of international emergency medicine experience and a keen business mind to start Containers to Clinics (C2C) and turn a recycling nightmare into a portable heathcare delivery system. It turns out that those abandoned shipping containers can be converted into low-maintenance healthcare clinics that can easily be transported to wherever they’re needed most.

Elizabeth was inspired to act after witnessing how a lack of access to healthcare costs lives and destroys communities around the world. Did you know that of the 10 million children dying in the world today, 50% of them are dying from easily treatable illnesses? Elizabeth’s goal with C2C is to provide not only the facilities and medical supplies to prevent such unnecessary deaths, but also the training to make each clinic a sustainable operation for the local people. After partnering with many architects, medical suppliers, governments and donors, C2C is ready to launch its first pilot clinic in January in the Dominican Republic.

C2C has plans to deploy many more of these shipping-container clinics around the world, and we’d like to help. As the holiday season winds down, we’re asking the Daily Grommet community to give one more gift: the gift of health and hope. Your donation will bring vital healthcare to the needy and help prevent unnecessary deaths due to lack of access to care.
— Mir

• Containers to Clinics ( C2C) is an international non profit aid foundation that recycles old shipping containers into portable health clinics.
• C2C provides primary healthcare to the most vulnerable underserved global communities.
• Here is a list of donation amounts and the impacts each has:
  • $25 Provides 250 children with life-saving oral rehydration treatment. About 2.2 million children die annually from dehydration due to diarrheal diseases, 80% of them in the first two years of life.
  • $50 Provides pre-natal care for a pregnant woman through consultations with a nurse during pregnancy.
  • $100 Provides 10 insecticide-treated bed nets. One million children died last year from complications of malaria infection that started with one mosquito bite.
  • $250 Vaccinates 35 children against polio. One in 200 infections leads to irreversible paralysis in children under 5 years of age. Among those paralyzed, 5% to 10% die when their breathing muscles become immobilized.
  • $500 Allows C2C to provide pre- and post-natal care to a pregnant woman over the period of year, including monitoring fetal development and ensuring safe delivery.
  • $1,000 Vaccinates over 100 children against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis B, influenza, and bacterial meningitis.
  • $5,000 Provides professional nursing staff at the clinic to monitor pregnancies, deliver infant care, and to provide preventive health consultations to patients. This nurse will see over 2,000 patients per year.
  • $10,000 Trains and deploys 5 community health workers in a rural village for one year. Each health worker visits and treats up to 10 people in their homes daily, providing urgent medical consultation and support for 13,000 people.