Floating Hospital on the sea

Marino Alfani - a sailboat designer in Italy has come up with the idea of a hospital at sea after having a chance to talk to a friend who is on a medical mission in Africa.

Alfani recognizes that a floating hospital can treat patients in coastal areas without a hospital or with rudimentary medical facilities and can also save victims in accidents such as boat sinking, natural disasters like tsunami ...

Floating hospital design includes examination areas, operating rooms, laboratories, recovery rooms.

Floating Hospital Control will have 3 sailors and 9 doctors, nurses with the ability to treat 50 patients each day.

According to Alfani, our Earth is covered with water and it is difficult to understand why we do not have emergency equipment at sea.

Alfani's floating hospital design was set on a 35-meter-long boat, 14.6 meters wide and 7 meters tall. It will be powered by two 1200 diesel electric motors and a maximum speed of 10 knots.

Alfani's design won the 2012 Millennium Sailing Design Award this month.