Engineered once, deployable many times.
A truck-based mobile hospital integrates the clinical facility onto a self-driving truck chassis, eliminating the need for a separate tractor and enabling one-person deployment to site. structmod truck-based mobile hospitals carry full clinical capability — treatment, surgery, imaging or specialty — on a purpose-built rigid chassis optimised for medical payload, stability and on-site deployment. The result is the fastest-deploying mobile medical unit available: drive to site, stabilise, deploy, operate.
Truck-based mobile hospital configurations include primary-care clinic trucks with 4-6 examination bays, surgical trucks with one or two operating theatres, imaging trucks carrying CT, MRI or mammography, and specialty trucks for dialysis, dental, obstetrics or ophthalmology. Each truck is independently road-legal (typically within 10-14 m overall length, 2.55 m transport width, expandable to 4-5 m via hydraulic walls where fitted), meaning the hospital drives to site without escort and sets up with jack stabilisation and wall expansion in 2-4 hours.
structmod truck-based mobile hospitals support emergency response teams, national health screening programmes, rural healthcare access initiatives and rapid-deployment military medical support. The truck platform excels where deployment speed is paramount, where driver-only logistics are required (no separate tractor, no external towing), or where the mobile unit cycles frequently between multiple sites. Lead time is 8-16 weeks from contract signature. Chassis selection — typically Mercedes Atego, MAN TGM, Iveco Stralis or DAF LF — is specified to host nation homologation requirements.
Typical deployment sequence
- Hour 0–2 — trailer or container units arrive on site
- Hour 2–6 — positioning, leveling and inter-unit connection
- Hour 6–12 — envelope sealing, MEP hook-up, medical gas
- Hour 12–24 — equipment install, commissioning, FAT
- Hour 24–72 — user training, operational handover
Spec sheet — STR-2699
| Overall length | 13.9 m · 45.6 ft |
|---|---|
| Width (transport) | 2.99 m |
| Width (deployed) | 2.99 m |
| Height (transport) | 3.20 m |
| Floor area (deployed) | 41.6 m² |
| Dry weight | 17.9 t |
| Chassis | EN 10025 S355JR hot-rolled steel · EN 1090 EXC-3 |
| Welding quality | EN ISO 3834-2 · certified RWC (IWE) |
| Envelope | Sandwich panel, PIR core 80 mm · λ ≈ 0.023 W/(m·K) |
| Fire resistance | EI-30 · tested to EN 13501-2 |
| Floor | Marine plywood on EPDM · R-10 slip rating |
| Electrical | 120/240 V · 60 Hz (US-spec) · IEC 60364 compliant |
| HVAC | Packaged rooftop · MERV-13 |
| Operating range | −25 °C to +50 °C ambient |
| Wind rating | Designed for 150 km/h basic wind (EN 1991-1-4) |
| Seismic design | Per EN 1998-1 (Eurocode 8) · ductility class DCM |
| Transport | ISO 668 footprint · CSC plate eligible (container variants) |
| Setup time | 24–72 hours · 4–6-person crew |
Full drawings, calculation notes, DoP, O&M manual and FAT report included with every unit. Specs indicative — configurable to project requirements.