Jalad
TYPHOON-AFFECTED AREAS PROVIDED TONS OF RELIEF GOODS, SHELTER ASSISTANCE - OCD CHIEF
The government has sent more than 7,000 tons of relief goods and more than P400-million worth of shelter assistance to communities devastated by Typhoon Odette last month, the chief of the country’s civil defense agency said on Monday. Undersecretary Ricardo Jalad, the administrator of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD), said in his report to President Rodrigo Roa Duterte that the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) sent a total
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of 6.4 million kilos of relief goods to typhoonaffected regions, with the OCD contributing P122 million.
Based on the President’s instruction, Jalad, who is also the executive director of the NDRRMC, said the government also contracted the services of a bottling company for the supply of bottled water from its plants in Ormoc City and Laguna. “And ang total --kasama na ‘yung mga donations from China, LT Group, and Taiwan, and
other donors, mayroon tayong naibigay na mahigit 2 million, almost 3 million liters of bottled water,” Jalad said during the President’s weekly public address. Aside from that, he said the OCD facilitated the deployment of mobile water treatment equipment. Other entities such as the Manila Water, Local Water Utilities Administration, and S&S Corp. sought government assistance for the deployment and transport of such equipment. Caraga INFOCUS
