The governor of the province asked Tuesday to the Government of President Rodrigo Duterte to send funds to provide drinking water and food to families in distress.
Le Monde with AFP.
The typhoon RAI sowed desolation to the Philippines. The island of Bohol, ravaged by the typhoon, lack of drinking water and food. The governor of this province Philippine has launched an alarm signal, Tuesday, December 21. Arthur Yap assured that the island lacked money and asked the Government of President Rodrigo Duterte to send funds to provide drinking water and food for families in distress.
“If you do not send money to buy food, send soldiers and police because there will be looting here,” said Mr. Yap in an interview at the DZBB radio station . While other parts of the country are preparing to celebrate Christmas, the province it directs “is in a situation similar to [the one in which Yolanda had left,” he said using the local name Typhoon Haiyan, the most murderer that the Philippines have known.
The Philippine soldiers were committed on Tuesday in a race against the watch to route water and food to the islands ravaged by Typhoon Rai, while the provisional record amounts to 375 dead and more than 400,000 people had to find Refuge in evacuation centers or in relatives, according to the Natural Disaster Agency.
Thousands of military, police and coastal guards have been deployed to distribute food, drinking water and medical equipment to survivors, who are struggling to find basic necessities. “I gave the military order to deploy all the means available – ships, boats, aircraft, trucks – to route the relief to the affected areas,” said the Secretary of Defense on Monday, Delfin Lorenzana.
Emergency call The Red Cross
The Red Cross also sends help to the Siagao and Bohol Islands, tourist destinations already borrowed after eighteen months of restrictions related to the health crisis. “The EMFR’s [International Federation of Red Crescent Federation and Red Crescent Federation] helps us to act quickly and do everything we can to help people and families get back on foot” , “said Alberto Bocanegra, head of the FICR in the Philippines.
The organization has appealed to donations to raise $ 22 million (€ 19.5 million) for emergency and reconstruction aid. The United Kingdom has committed a million dollars (880 million euros) to the FICR. Rai is particularly late in the season, most tropical cyclones in the Pacific Ocean forming between July and October. Scientists have long warned that typhoons are becoming increasingly powerful as global warming up.