President Rodrigo Duterte has directed the Department of Energy to revive electricity supply in areas ravaged by Typhoon Odette (Rai), Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said on Sunday.
Nograles said some areas, particularly Dinagat Islands, still do not have electricity.
“Number one, ipa-address agad sa Department of Energy (DOE) ang problema sa kuryente nu’ng mga walang kuryente,” Nograles said in an interview over Super Radyo dzBB, when asked about Duterte’s directives after a visit in Bohol.
First of all, the President orders the DOE to address the power supply problem in areas badly hit by the typhoon.]
Further, Nograles said Duterte also ordered the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) to install very small aperture terminal (VSAT) equipment to Siargao as well as satellite phones to ensure coordination with the Office of the Civil Defense for calamity response.
“In fact, yung DICT may have an emergency cooperation system… at ide-deploy na sa Siargao. (In fact, DICT has an emergency cooperation system… which will be deployed in Siargao),” said Nograles.
Community tents, fishing boats
As some evacuation centers were compromised, Nograles said the government will provide community tents at Dinagat Islands, where most evacuation sites were damaged.
“So yung mga community tents para sa mga nasirang evacuation sites natin, magpapadala ang gobyerno do’n, (The government will deliver community tents to replace damaged evacuation sites),” said Nograles.
Duterte also directed the Department of Agriculture to address the needs of fisherfolk whose boats were destroyed by Odette, said Nograles.
Social Welfare Secretary Rolly Bautista with the assistance of National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) Executive Director Ricardo Jalad were also designated as crisis managers for Odette-hit areas, Nograles added.
Odette left 31 people killed, three people hurt and one person missing after it ravaged Visayas and Mindanao areas, data from NDRRMC showed. —LBG, GMA News
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