Dinagat Islands IMT bolsters effort for disaster response
The National Nutrition Council (NNC) Caraga with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Philippines joined the Incident Management Team (IMT) predeployment briefing. An incident management team is usually dispatched or mobilized during complex emergency incidents in order to provide a commandand-control infrastructure to manage the operational, logistical, informational, planning, fiscal, community, political, and safety issues associated with complex incidents such as Super Typhoon Odette.
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As part of the strategy to harmonize disaster response efforts, Dinagat Islands IMT coordinated and provided latest and relevant information to the various disaster response clusters and response units deployed in the province as communication remains one of the challenges brought about the destruction of electrical and telecommunication lines.
the seven municipalities in the province and assessed the nutritional situation of the most affected areas in each of the municipalities, as well as structural condition of the evacuation centers, Barangay Health Centers and Stations, Rural Health Units and hospitals.
The result of the assessment and ocular visit served as one of the The strategy included the bases for the immediate assignment of response nutrition and health clusters, including the response and also served nutrition cluster, to as one of the references specific areas mostly for the long-term affected by Typhoon interventions for nutrition Odette. and health in the province. (RPOchavo, The Caraga Regional NNC-Caraga/PIANutrition Cluster visited Caraga)
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