The combined amount of damage to agriculture and infrastructure caused by Typhoons Egay and Falcon and the southwest monsoon (habagat) has reached more than P10 billion.
In its bulletin on Wednesday, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) estimated the damage to agriculture and infrastructure at P4.45 billion and P5.81 billion, respectively.
It said the recent weather disturbances also affected a total of 1,224,219 families or 4,555,227 persons residing in 5,334 barangays in the Ilocos region, Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, Calabarzon, Mimaropa, Bicol, Western Visayas, Eastern Visayas, Northern Mindanao, Davao region, Soccsksargen, Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), Cordillera region, and National Capital Region.
The NDRRMC also said 7,237 families or 25,702 individuals are still in 352 evacuation centers while 21,043 families or 80,908 persons are receiving aid outside evacuation centers.
The Office of Civil Defense said the affected families are a combination of those displaced and those not needing removal from their residence but whose livelihoods have been affected.
The death toll stood at 30, four of whom have been confirmed. About 171 persons were reported injured, 152 of whom have been validated. Reports of 10 missing persons are still undergoing validation.
The Department of Health (DOH) meanwhile conducted the Disaster Risk Reduction and Management in Health (DRRM-H) Learning and Development Summit which aims aims to strengthen disaster risk reduction and health management nationwide.
OIC-Undersecretary and Chief of Staff Dr. Gloria J. Balboa led the efforts in the DRRM-H institutionalization, operationalization, and localization.
“It is important to spread knowledge and awareness on disaster risk reduction and management in health in order to prepare communities on the coming of probable crisis,” the department said. The program was attended by Disaster Risk Reduction and Management in Health (DRRM-H) Managers of the DOH Centers for Health Development (CHDs), Hospitals and Drug Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation Centers and other health sector partners around the country.
The event aims to build competency in the province-wide and city-wide health system across the areas of DRRM in promoting disaster mitigation, disaster preparedness, disaster response, and disaster recovery and rehabilitation to create a safer, more adaptive, and disaster-resilient Filipino communities, according to the DOH.