Senator Bong Go urged the Senate to pass a bill establishing evacuation centers across the Philippines.
BONG GO — The incumbent senator urged the Senate to pass a bill establishing evacuation centers across the Philippines.
On Wednesday, Senator Christopher Lawrence Go renewed his call for members of Congress to pass the bill seeking the mandatory creation of safe and properly equipped evacuation centers in every city, municipality, and province across the country.
The senator made the appeal in the aftermath of typhoon “Odette”.
Go has filed Senate Bill No. 1228 or the proposed Mandatory Evacuation Center Act in order to ensure that victims of calamities would have access to temporary shelters.
The senator also noted that gymnasiums, barangay centers, schools, or basketball courts weren’t ideal temporary shelters.
“Kaya panahon na po magkaroon tayo ng evacuation center sa bawat bayan,” Go stressed. “We need to erect safe, permanent and dedicated evacuation centers that can offer sufficient emergency packs, like blankets, water, medicine, flashlight, and ready relief goods.”
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Go also stressed that the government has an obligation to ensure that it is ready to help during whatever calamity.
The Senate Bill No. 1228 was currently pending in the Senate’s National Defense and Security, Peace, Unification, and Reconciliation committee along with Senate Bill No. 205 which the senator also filed. The latter sought the creation of the Department of Disaster Resilience (DDR).
Following the onslaught of the typhoon, the senator said that it’s even more imperative to pass the measures sooner. Go said that the government needed to be more proactive in responding to natural disasters and calamities.
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