BAGUIO CITY – The Department of Health is enhancing the institutionalization of disaster risk reduction and management in the health sector. In an interview on Friday, DOH-CAR Director Dr. Amelita Pangilinan said government agencies should strengthen Mental Health…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Mayor Nestor Archival admitted on Wednesday, October 1, that the city is only “50 percent ready” to face large-scale calamities like the magnitude 6.9 earthquake that shook Cebu Tuesday night. He cited gaps…
CEBU CITY, Philippines – The provincial government is eyeing to establish a full-fledged command center as part of its goals to improve the disaster risk reduction body’s capacity to respond to emergencies and mitigate disasters. And they…
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Thousands of people were being forcibly evacuated from 2,500 villages in the northern Philippines on Monday as another typhoon threatened the region already devastated by floods and landslides from three storms in less…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CCDRRMO) is warning the public to avoid activities near rivers as flash floods may occur anytime during the rainy season. In an interview with…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Over the past ten years, the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) has poured P1 billion worth of emergency and rehabilitation aid in Cebu. PRC Chairman and CEO Richard “Dick” Gordon, in a press conference…
MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — Mandaue City’s disaster office will conduct a Pre-Disaster Risk Assessment on Wednesday afternoon, May 24, in preparation for typhoon Mawar. Mawar is expected to enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) on Friday,…
MANDAUE CITY, Philippines – Mandaue City celebrated CDRRMO Day on May 2 by showcasing the capabilities of Purok-Based Emergency Response Teams’ in responding to emergencies. The activity held at the city hall grounds highlighted the purok teams’…
Syria — The death toll from the massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria kept on climbing Thursday, topping 21,000 as the first UN aid reached Syrian rebel-held zones but hopes of finding more survivors faded. The chief of…
ANTAKYA — Freezing temperatures deepened the misery Thursday for survivors of a massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria that killed more than 16,000 people, as rescuers raced to save countless people still trapped under rubble. The death…
KAHRAMANMARAS – A huge earthquake killed more than 3,700 people across a swathe of Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday, with freezing winter weather adding to the plight of the thousands left injured or homeless and hampering…
HATAY, Turkey – The screams of people still trapped in the rubble filled the night early on Tuesday and relatives wept for their loved ones as the death toll in Turkey and in neighbouring northwest Syria rose…
