UNICEF supports Iran's emergency health response with portable tents and rapid response backpacks

UNICEF
Nov 04, 2025

UNICEF supports Iran's emergency health response with portable tents and rapid response backpacks


UNICEF works closely with Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MoHME) to ensure that children, women, and everyone in need can get medical care when a disaster or emergency occurs. They are focusing on two projects to help people immediately.

1. Portable Emergency Health Tents

When an earthquake or flood hits, regular clinics can be damaged. To fix this, UNICEF is buying special, easy-to-use Primary Health Care (PHC) Emergency Portable Tents.

Here’s why these tents are important:

  • Care for Everyone: They make sure people still get basic medical care, and they are specially set up to help pregnant women and even assist with giving birth.
  • Ready to Go: They are lightweight and designed to be set up very quickly, even in remote or hard-to-reach areas.
  • Full Clinic in a Tent: Each tent is fully equipped, like a small hospital unit. It can give essential health services to about 200 people every single day.
  • They've been tested! This idea worked great after the Kermanshah earthquake, and now 10 tents are being delivered to different areas.