Officials unable to cope the enormous number of flood victims still pouring into schools, gymnasiums, churches and other makeshift shelters as the death toll from weekend disaster soared to 246.
After words of help spread, hundreds of people converged on the place and received plastic bags filled with noodles and canned sardines.
The death toll jumped after authorities finally recording those killed in Manila, and not just the neighboring regions. The latest toll was 246 over 100 more than Monday's assesment.
The Department of Health (DOH) is concerned that overcrowding will hasten the spread of water-borne diseases. Monday the DOH has already conducted assessments of some 207 evacuation centers set up in flood-hit areas that showed marked water and hygiene problems.
PREVENT WATER-BORNE DISEASES.
>Wash hands before preparing food and after using the toilet.
>Boiling drinking water for 2 or more minutes or do water chlorination.
>Avoid wading in flood water. If you must, wear a rubber boots.
>Avoid wading and taking baths in flood waters.
>Clean up all possible mosquito breeding sites, such as vases, empty coconut shells, old tires, or tin cans.
>Stay inside a house or building during heavy rains.
>When a flood advisory is issued, residents in low-lying areas should seek higher ground.
>Avoid crossing low-lying areas and bridges during evacuation.
The Comission on Higher Education (CHED) said Wednesday that classes at the tertiary level in Metro Manila and other places under a state of calamity will remain suspended until Saturday.
Colleges and Universities are being encouraged to become centers that will receive aid and donations to help the typhoon victim. The CHED also announced that nursing students and Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) cadets would be asked to report to help in government's clean up drive and relief operations in devastated areas.
By Tuesday tonnes of food aid as well as foreign experts were on their way to the Philippines.
After admitting it could not cope on its own, the government on Monday appealed to the international community for help.
Among the first nations to respond, Australia, the United States, France and Japan said they had sent pledged support for relief efforts.
Vietnam also suffering the strength of ONDOY (ketsana) from the Philippines now at least 22 people killed after it slammed into central Vietnam on Tuesday, and caused almost 170,000 people flee their homes.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
HELP FOR ONDOY
Even Hollywood stars called their fellow Americans to help the victims of tropical storm ONDOY (Ketsana) in the Philippines as they expressed their sympathies to the ondoy victim.
Eva Fonda sexy actress Cristine Reyes cried for help when she trapped at their rooftop in their residence in Provident Village, Marikina City, as tropical storm roared and flooded rose menacingly. The actor emerged from nowhere on a speedboat and help her to safety. WOW how sweet?
Rescuers from different areas pulled the dead from swollen rivers and thousands thirst from without water, hungry for food and power as the death toll from the worst flooding in the Philippines in more than 4 decades climbed to 100.
While tens of thousands of affected residents began to cleanup and storm ondoy left the Philippines, the extent of devastation became clear, mud covered communities, houses covered with landslide, car choked the streets and huge number of residents without water to drink, foods to eat and no power.
The government has declared a state of calamity in metropolitan Manila and other provinces affected. More than 450,000+- people were affected by the storm, including some 115,000+- brought to about 200 schools, and Churches and other evacuation centers. Government welfare officials have begun focusing on providing food, medicine and other necessities to those in emergency shelters.
The United States has donated $100,000 and deployed a military helicopter and five rubber boats manned by about 20 American soldiers from the countries south. The United Nations Children's Fund has also provided food and other aid.
However PAGASA said ondoy will continue to enhance the southwest monsoon and bring occasional rains in the western section of Central and southern Luzon. Luzon will experience cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms.
Another two weather disturbances are likely to enter the Philippine area and expected to enter the Philippine boundary by late Wednesday or Thursday.
Eva Fonda sexy actress Cristine Reyes cried for help when she trapped at their rooftop in their residence in Provident Village, Marikina City, as tropical storm roared and flooded rose menacingly. The actor emerged from nowhere on a speedboat and help her to safety. WOW how sweet?
Rescuers from different areas pulled the dead from swollen rivers and thousands thirst from without water, hungry for food and power as the death toll from the worst flooding in the Philippines in more than 4 decades climbed to 100.
While tens of thousands of affected residents began to cleanup and storm ondoy left the Philippines, the extent of devastation became clear, mud covered communities, houses covered with landslide, car choked the streets and huge number of residents without water to drink, foods to eat and no power.
The government has declared a state of calamity in metropolitan Manila and other provinces affected. More than 450,000+- people were affected by the storm, including some 115,000+- brought to about 200 schools, and Churches and other evacuation centers. Government welfare officials have begun focusing on providing food, medicine and other necessities to those in emergency shelters.
The United States has donated $100,000 and deployed a military helicopter and five rubber boats manned by about 20 American soldiers from the countries south. The United Nations Children's Fund has also provided food and other aid.
However PAGASA said ondoy will continue to enhance the southwest monsoon and bring occasional rains in the western section of Central and southern Luzon. Luzon will experience cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms.
Another two weather disturbances are likely to enter the Philippine area and expected to enter the Philippine boundary by late Wednesday or Thursday.
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