An ambulance whose patient cabin is held below ambient pressure, so air flows inward and exhausts only after HEPA filtration. Built with a sealed partition, an independent extraction unit and a visible pressure gauge, it is the transport configuration used for confirmed or suspected infectious cases.
| Base chassis | Ford Transit platform, wheelbase selected to the required cabin length |
|---|---|
| Cabin | Sealed patient compartment with independent liner and washable surfaces |
| Air path | HEPA-filtered extraction creating controlled negative pressure, with pressure gauge and alarm |
| Isolation | Sealed partition between driver and patient cabin, separate ventilation for the cab |
| Disinfection support | Smooth, non-porous surfaces and drainage arranged for routine chemical disinfection |
| Delivery | Complete vehicle, or body kits for local assembly |
Negative pressure is not a filter bolted to a roof vent. It is a pressure relationship: the extraction unit must move more air out of the cabin than leaks in, and the cabin must be tight enough for that difference to be maintained. Every joint, gasket, cable pass-through and door seal therefore matters as much as the filter itself.
Our patient cabin is built as a separate liner inside the body shell. Services — oxygen, suction, electrical, lighting — run in a service cavity behind that liner so no cable penetrates the sterile envelope except through a sealed gland. The pressure gauge sits where the attendant can see it during transport, with an alarm if the differential falls outside the set band.
This configuration was delivered in China's first national batch of negative-pressure ambulances in 2020, and the design has been refined through public-health deployments since. The practical lesson from those deployments is serviceability: filters, seals and the extraction unit are reachable from outside the patient cabin, so routine maintenance does not require opening the sterile envelope.
Each configuration is a starting point — equipment, layout and finish are set per order.
Single-patient cabin, HEPA extraction, pressure gauge and alarm, sealed partition.
Adds monitor bracket, infusion pole and a 220 V circuit so a nurse can monitor the patient inside the cabin.
Longer wheelbase with two stretcher positions on a shared extraction circuit, both within the same pressure envelope.
Interior drainage, chemical-resistant floor covering and an external wash point for post-transport decontamination.
The same platform carries different fit-outs depending on who operates it.
Confirmed or suspected cases moved from home or clinic to a designated treatment facility.
Transfer between isolation wards and referral hospitals without contaminating the vehicle cab.
Screening points that must move a suspected case without exposing staff or the terminal environment.
Every unit is re-engineered to your specification.
Box-type conversion on the Ford Transit T8 chassis. Transport, monitoring and intensive-care layouts with oxygen, suction and inverter systems.
Compact 4x4 ambulance for rural roads, rough tracks and narrow urban lanes where a full-size van cannot operate.
The cabin is leak-tested at build, and the pressure differential is displayed on a gauge with an alarm band during operation. Acceptance figures for your procurement can be agreed in the contract specification.
Yes. With the extraction unit running in normal mode it behaves as a standard monitoring ambulance. The isolation configuration adds capability rather than restricting use.
Yes. Filter elements, door gaskets and extraction-unit components are listed as service items, and we can supply a maintenance kit with the vehicle order.
The platform has been deployed in mainland China public-health fleets since 2020. For other markets the electrical and medical fit-out is reviewed against local registration and infection-control requirements before the specification is frozen.
Straight answers from our engineering and export teams.
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Tell us the patient profile, the route and the disinfection protocol you follow. We will propose a cabin and air-handling specification.
