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Duterte administration reveal plans to effectively implement disaster risk reduction program
By Jelly F. Musico

MANILA, July 12 (PNA) – The administration of President Rodrigo Duterte has prepared plans that would help to effectively implement the national disaster risk reduction program of the government in places usually hit by natural calamities like typhoon.

”There were plans to preposition ships in a safe place like the path of the typhoon to readily respond to crisis,” Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said in a press briefing in Malacanang on Tuesday.

During a Cabinet meeting last Monday, Abella said there were also plans to prioritize security personnel and health workers to be sent as first responders to calamity damaged areas.

In the previous calamities, particularly super typhoon Yolanda that devastated the country in 2013, the government’s efforts to deliver tons of aid and relief goods have been delayed due to the damage road and bridges.

In 2013 alone, a total of 25 tropical cyclones entered the country, including super typhoon Yolanda, considered as the world’s strongest typhoon to make landfall, that left more than 6,000 people dead.

The National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) has placed the total amount of losses and damage caused by typhoon at Php 571.1 billion.

President Duterte appointed Ricardo Jalad as executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC).

July is the National Disaster Consciousness Month (NDCM). (PNA)

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