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ModuleCo (formerly PKL Healthcare) has recently completed one of it's most challenging projects to date. A field hospital supplied to the US Army at it's air base near Bagram in Afghanistan. This is not the first time PKL has worked for the armed forces, the healthcare division's first project was providing an operating theatre to the British Army in Kosovo in 1999.
The Afghan facility was fabricated at the factory of a modular partner in Dubai complete with the maximum amount of Mechanical and Electrical fit out. The units were then shipped across the Arabian Sea to Karachi in Pakistan. From here the 86 modules were transported by road on a 16 day journey through Pakistan and Afghanistan before arriving at Bagram, 27 miles north of Kabul.
The 2,500m2 facility has three separate buildings with servicing plant areas and consists three operating theatre suites, a trauma unit and an intensive care unit, all supported with associated ancillary areas.
One of the benefits of using modular construction on this project is that it can be easily relocated to another army base should it be required elsewhere. This is exactly what happened with ModuleCo's first operating theatre following the end of the conflict in Kosovo in 1999.
At the end of October ModuleCo (formerly PKL Healthcare) will be permanently relocating an operating theatre suite to it's new home at Halton Hospital in Runcorn. As part of a 'spend to save' scheme, North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust are reconfiguring the services of their two hospital sites. The modular operating theatre with 2-bed recovery is the first step in this reconfiguration and will be ready to receive it's first patient on the 4th December.
The total programme for re-installation is only six weeks, which includes some changes the layout and the creation of an extra modular building link. This short programme is made possible due to the modular design of the theatre suite. The features of which include, a fully enclosed and fitted out plant room module, breakable service connections on module joints (where allowed), and rooms that are contained within single modules are completely fitted out before delivery.
ModuleCo have now provided over 65 dedicated healthcare facilities for a range of requirements on a temporary and permanent basis.
