AKDN and Better Shelter build COVID-19 rapid response centres
AKAH sets up rapidly deployable, easy to build COVID-19 center for AKHS in nine days
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Article Author: AKDN and Better Shelter build COVID-19 rapid response centres
Media Source: Asia Plus (Tajikistan)
Date: 14 June 2020
In Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral in Northern Pakistan, the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) and the Aga Khan Health Services, with support from Better Shelter, are setting up six COVID-19 rapid response centres using prefabricated materials and modular designs. The urgent nature of the pandemic demands rapidly deployable, easy to…
In Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral in Northern Pakistan, the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) and the Aga Khan Health Services, with support from Better Shelter, are setting up six COVID-19 rapid response centres using prefabricated materials and modular designs. The urgent nature of the pandemic demands rapidly deployable, easy to build, adaptable technologies. While AKAH has the expertise and effective construction solutions to build structures quickly for emergency response that are adapted to remote mountain environments, Better Shelter has the modular, flat-pack, soft-structure shelter units that are easy to transport and install in humanitarian relief operations.