How Portable Tents Can Come to the Rescue in Emergency Situations

Anyone who has used a canopy pop-up tent will know how versatile they are. Right from being used in parties, celebrations, and weddings to participation by businesses in trade fairs, exhibitions, and festivals, and community events, pop-up tents have found numerous applications fulfilling the need for portable shelters. However, pop-up tents are not only for happy times but also find many uses in emergency use in disaster relief by medical staff, first responders, and volunteers. A quick look at some of the typical emergencies where pop-up tents find use:

Sanitation Station 

In case of an epidemic breakout like the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, maintaining personal hygiene and sanitation assumes critical importance. Public health departments and NGO volunteers can use a pop-up tent to set up a sanitation station. All they need are some folding chairs, a collapsible table, and hand sanitizer. If required, it is possible to set up more elaborate tents equipped with hand-washing sinks and even portable showers. These easy-to-set-up sanitization stations are ideal for setting up in public spaces like bus or rail stations and parks and other locations like hospital parking lots or schools that see high traffic.

Medical Screening and Testing

When an epidemic strikes, the disaster management team may need to conduct testing and screening of the local population on an emergency basis. A canopy tent is ideal for the first responders and healthcare workers to do this. In case, the testing procedure requires privacy, it is also possible to have a sidewall strategically placed inside the tent to fulfill this need.

Triage Tent

At any time, when healthcare facilities have more traffic than they can handle, they may be forced to conduct triage outdoors. When the action may be outside the hospital building, there is nothing better than a portable tent in which to carry out the triage. Not only are they safer, but also give the necessary privacy to the patients. Tents to be used for this kind of application should be equipped with sidewalls for protection of privacy as well as from the weather and be large enough to accommodate cots. According to a CNN report, the shortage of ventilators for COVID-19 patients has led doctors to make difficult decisions regarding patients who will be given ventilators and who will be left to manage without them.

Disaster Relief 

Whenever any disaster strikes, the first responders rush to the spot to not only rescue and treat the injured but also to distribute food and essential relief materials like medical supplies, blankets, food, clothing, etc. A portable tent is ideal for these operations, not only for housing the volunteers but also to store the relief materials.

Conclusion 

When disasters strike or emergencies happen, it is important to rush to the spot and administer relief as fast as possible. Portable tents are ideal as shelters for a wide range of first responders, medical caregivers, firefighters, and more. Right from small units to large to elaborate tents capable of accommodating a lot of people as well as furniture, you get portable tents to fulfill virtually every requirement.