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DLA provides mobile field clinics to Honduras
By Alison Welski DLA Troop Support Public Affairs
Published June 12, 2023
PHILADELPHIA – To help restore medical infrastructure damaged by hurricanes, the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support’s Medical supply chain provided six mobile field clinics to Honduras through a US Southern Command humanitarian donation in April.
Made of repurposed shipping containers, the portable turnkey medical field clinics will help serve patients in remote areas without hospitals since the aftermath of Hurricanes Iota and Eta in November 2020. In total, three dental containers, one infectious disease lab, one maternity clinic, and one laboratory will bring relief to residents without organized healthcare.
Local clinic providing support to Syria and Ukraine
by Stephanie Maniche, KAKE News
Published March 10, 2023
WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) - It is not your typical clinic but a solar-powered health clinic that functions the same as if you were at your local hospital.
Owner and CEO of Clinic in a Can, Physician's Assistant Michael Wawrzewski, said these clinics must be up to the same codes as accredited hospitals.
Clinic in a Can partnered with Heart to Heart International and their latest mission is shipping these containers to Syria and Ukraine.
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Lenexa Nonprofit Heart to Heart Looks to Grow Ukraine Relief Efforts
by Kaylie McLaughlin, Shawnee Mission PostPublished March 10, 2023
One of the big focuses of the trip in February was making sure the aid Heart to Heart has been sending is arriving where it needs to and when it needs to so it’s most effective. For the last 13 months, the nonprofit has sent over medicine, hygiene kits and medical supplies.
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers donate mobile medical room to Cape Coral health clinic
by Dave Elias, NBC-2
LEE COUNTY, Fla. — Hurricane Ian wiped out an entire health clinic in Cape Coral. The Samaritan Health and Wellness Center has thousands of patients that come from all over for care.
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The heart of JoCo: Here’s how the county is helping Ukrainian refugees, citizens
by Beth Lipoff, The Kansas City Star
As the war in Ukraine continues to shift and often escalate, many in Johnson County are showing their compassion by helping refugees and those still in the country.
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CLINIC IN A CAN RECEIVES HELPING HAND FOR SENDING MEDICAL CLINICS TO UKRAINE
by Felicia Rolfe, KWCH12
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Clinic In A Can takes old shipping containers and refurbishes them into relocatable medical clinics that can be sent anywhere. The company partnered with Heart To Heart international out of Kansas City to send clinics to Ukraine.
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CLINICS AID UKRAINE
by Taylor Messick, Ark Valley News
A Bel Aire nonprofit is providing life-saving resources to the people of Ukraine as they continue to defend the country against a Russian invasion.
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Bel Aire’s Clinic In A Can aids humanitarian efforts in Ukraine
by KWCH Staff
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Bel Aire-based Clinic In A Can, in partnership with Heart to Heart International, will be sending eight more fully equipped, solar powered medical units to Ukraine.
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Kansas to send food and medical supplies to Ukraine this week
by Craig Andres, KSN News
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Sometimes all it takes is a random phone call and good things happen.
Clinic In A Can Wichita got that phone call, and now, there’s food and medical supplies on the way to Ukraine.
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Wichita volunteers prepare ‘Clinics In A Can’ for Ukraine
by KWCH Staff
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Clinic In A Can, Heart to Heart International and other volunteers spent Wednesday preparing three mobile shipping containers which will go to Ukraine to help manage the medical needs of any displaced people.
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Local business sending medical, food supplies to Ukraine
by Jackson Overstreet, KAKE News
BEL AIRE, Kan. (KAKE) — It all started with a phone call for Michael Wawrzewski.
“I was sitting at the Sam’s parking lot when I got the call and he said, ‘Why aren’t you doing something in Ukraine?’”
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Clinic in a Can helping the medical field
by FOX Kansas News
A local company is ready to help with global medical needs, but first, they're focused on how they can help during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Clinic in a Can provides compact and portable medical rooms housed in 20-foot storage containers that can be dropped off wherever they are needed.
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‘Clinic in a Can’: Wichita company makes clinics out of shipping containers
by Jhovani Carrillo, KSNW
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – A local Wichita company is turning ordinary shipping containers into COVID-19 testing and screening clinics.
‘Clinic in a Can’ manufactured around 30 makeshift clinics during the start of the pandemic.
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Covid-19 accelerates growth for Clinic in a Can as it begins construction on Bel Aire warehouse
by Shelby Kellermen, Wichita Business Journal
Boosted by the Covid-19 pandemic, Clinic in a Can is ready to expand its operations and footprint with the construction of a new 40,000 square-foot manufacturing warehouse in Bel Aire.
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Lynden Air Cargo Delivers ‘Clinic in a Can’ to Western Alaska
Alaska Business
Lynden Air Cargo delivered a mobile medical facility, called “Clinic in a Can,” to Western Alaska this fall, bringing much-needed medical services to the small community of Naknek.
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Clinic in a Can fills health care gaps across the globe
By Sara Ornelas, WSU News
Michael Wawrzewski is the epitome of the word humble.
“We're just regular Kansas people doing things to help people around the world,” he said.
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Santa Rosa medical provider turns to converted shipping containers for exam rooms
by Martin Espinoza, The Press Democrat
Michael Russo sat in a space called F-1 at the new Fiesta Clinic in Santa Rosa, waiting for Dr. Ele Lozares-Lewis to administer a set of injections that would help relieve his muscle spasms and back pain.
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Georgia Students Learn Pre-engineering As They Revamp Shipping Containers for Haiti
by Stell Simonton, Youth Today
Six empty shipping containers sit in the parking lot of Marietta High School in Marietta, Georgia.
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CLINIC IN A CAN HELPS HURRICANE VICTIMS
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“Clinic in a Can” to deploy mobile health units to disaster zones
by Carly Willis, KSN News
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Resources are stretched thin in disaster zones like Houston, but help is on the way in the form of mobile health clinics from local non-profit, Clinic in a Can.
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Clinic In A Can: meeting the needs and challenges of healthcare delivery in rural Africa
Michael Joseph Wawrzewski III is a US physician with an interest in engineering. Working in remote areas led him to realise the need for innovations and the ubiquitous shipping container was reinvented
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'Clinic in a Can' soon in Saudi Arabia
by Shahd Alhamdan, The Saudi Gazette
DUBAI — Samama Holding Company signed a distributing contract with General Electric Healthcare in partnership with Clinic in a Can to market and deploy 100 units of ‘Clinic in a Can’ in the Gulf region, especially in the Kingdom.
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Climb aboard the Clinic in a Can
by Kelly Clarke, Khaleej Times
With more than two million people expected to descend on Makkah for the Haj this year, issues relating to healthcare are hoped to be addressed by the introduction of up to 30 'Clinic in a Can' mobile units throughout its five-day duration.
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Clinic in a Can sending more help to Africa
by Ryan Newton, KSN News
WICHITA, Kansas – A local group is having a big international impact, sending medical help over to countries in need.
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From Wichita To Liberia, A Local Effort To Curb Ebola Epidemic
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Matt Hamer of Clinic in a Can unlatches the doors of what, on the outside, appears to be a pearly white shipping container.
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Typhoon Haiyan recovery: progress and challenges
by Sima Barmania, The Lancet
On Nov 8, 2013, the Philippines experienced its most devastating catastrophe in 20 years—Super Typhoon Haiyan.
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U.N. asks Wichita’s Clinic in a Can for converted shipping containers for Philippines
by Kelsey Ryan, Kansas City Star
Clinic in a Can – a Wichita-based nonprofit that converts shipping containers into medical clinics – has been awarded a contract with the United Nations to send an ob-gyn hospital to the Philippines.
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Solar Speaks: A Discussion with Daniel White of Clinic in a Can
by Kathie Zipp, Solar Power World
We spoke with Daniel White, Assistant Director of Clinic in a Can. He discussed this non-profit organization and its recent completion of the first fully solar-powered medical clinic constructed in shipping container.