Here is a ‘bubble pack’ repeater capable radio. The store is out of stock of them at the moment; Mot makes a few more which show up on their (motorola’s) site, but I have to run in a second and no time to look them up.
I saw that notice too, that’s geared toward ham radio users who want to obtain reciprocal licenses for operation in Haiti. It would probably be wise for the hospital to contact CONATEL and ensure that a GMRS repeater wouldn’t interfere with anything.
What I had mainly meant tho was that in the USA the FRS/GMRS bands are reserved for FRS/GMRS users. Aside from the licensing requirement (which I’m sure nobody would bother enforcing if there was an earthquake here) one can use a FRS or GMRS radio without worrying about causing problems for anybody other than other FRS/GMRS users.
In Haiti on the other hand, the 462 and 467MHz frequencies used for FRS/GMRS may be allocated for something else, IE government, military or business use, and putting up an (American) GMRS system may cause problems for Haitian systems that are actually supposed to be using those frequencies.
A good comparison is the European PMR446 radios- operating right around 446MHz, PMR446 provides a nice equivalent to the USA’s GMRS. However while PMR446 may be used freely in Europe without a problem, in the USA a PMR446 user would be inside the 440MHz amateur (ham) band which of course requires a license, and is also used by military radar systems. A European user who brings his PMR446 radio to the USA and starts using it could inadvertently cause problems for a 440 band ham radio repeater, I wouldn’t want our friend in Haiti and his hospital to create the same problem for someone else down there.