Argentine Air Force Mobile Field Hospital

[1] The unit has a 64-member staff personnel between military and civilians and is made up of 14 containers Pictorial[permanent dead link‍] which, when fully assembled, occupy an area of 360 m2.

Fourteen flights of C-130 Hercules aircraft are needed to fully deploy the Hospital.

[2] Among the services provided by the Hospital are general clinic, surgery, dentistry, pharmacy, etc.

[2] Thanks to its isolation, the construction can withstand temperatures from -15 to 40 degrees Celsius and can endure harsh tremors as demonstrated when it remained operational after the earthquake of January 2010 in Haiti.

[1] On January 12, 2010 while deployed at Port-au-Prince serving as medical facility for MINUSTAH troops the hospital was the only one still opened following the earthquake treating nearly 1,000 people on the first night[7][8] Both U.S. presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton congratulated Argentina for the Hospital quick response in the first critical hours after the earthquake [9] The same did Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her visit to Buenos Aires on 1 March 2010 [10]