| Emergency shelters are erected for people who | | | | emergency teams have to be flown in, to provide |
| are suddenly rendered homeless due to a natural | | | | medical treatment. The medical-treatment teams |
| disaster or due to any other cause. The easiest | | | | need medical supplies and facilities to treat the |
| and fastest emergency shelters that can be | | | | people. Medical treatment may be required where |
| setup very fast are tents. International agencies | | | | a disaster has occurred or a disease has spread, |
| like UNHCR, ICRC, etc have stocks of tents | | | | like the outbreak of bird flu, et cetera. In such |
| placed all over the world and are set up in case of | | | | cases the entire area is cordoned of, people in the |
| a natural disaster occurring. | | | | area are quarantined and only medical emergency |
| These tents are air lifted and set up in a safe | | | | teams are allowed inside until the emergency is |
| place in the emergency area. These emergency | | | | over. |
| shelters become known as tent cities as there | | | | Emergency-shelters and medical-treatment go |
| can be hundreds of families living in these tent | | | | hand in hand wherever emergencies occur. In |
| cities. Other basic facilities also have to be made | | | | fact, the medical treatment units are the first set |
| available to people who live in emergency shelters. | | | | of people who are sent in an emergency area. |
| Water, food and sanitation are the foremost | | | | They have to fix people who have been injured |
| requirements of people who migrate to | | | | by the emergency. |
| emergency shelters. | | | | Emergency-shelters are temporary shelters that |
| Other than this, they need clothes, bedding, | | | | are setup to provide shelter to people. If the |
| utensils, and hygiene kits. People may come to | | | | emergency is a drought, or war and people are |
| the emergency shelter without any worldly | | | | going to stay for longer periods in |
| possessions and not even a change of clothes or | | | | emergency-shelters. Then they may need more |
| even shoes. People leave their homes because of | | | | than tents to stay in. In such cases, there are |
| an emergency and shift to an emergency camp. | | | | companies that make prefabricated houses, which |
| They just escape with their lives when faced with | | | | can be erected fast and provide a better and |
| an emergency. | | | | safer shelter against the elements than tents. |
| People come to an emergency-because they had | | | | Governments and international organisations |
| to flee in panic. A number of people sustain | | | | purchase and setup these emergency shelters. |
| injuries while escaping and the first thing that they | | | | Governments of countries that are prone to |
| need is medical-treatment. To provide | | | | disasters like China, keep emergency shelters in |
| medical-treatment in an emergency you have | | | | stock. They also have medical treatment teams |
| different types of emergency medical-treatment | | | | on standby. |
| teams. In case of an emergency in a city, town | | | | Providing emergency-shelters and medical |
| or other populated area the paramedics are called | | | | treatment is what every country has to be |
| in to provide the first step of medical treatment. | | | | prepared for. The level of preparedness cannot |
| When people flee en-mass from a disaster, | | | | be predicted, as emergencies are unpredictable. |