Several directives have been issued by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to ensure the security, health, sanitation and cleanliness in the typhoon-stricken areas and to help typhoon victims go back to normal life.
Arroyo ordered the Department of Health (DOH) to lead in this endeavor by providing adequate health services. The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) to mobilize barangay officials to look into the cleanliness of the evacuation centers in their area of responsibility.
Department of Labor and Employment Secretary Marianito Roque volunteered 500 persons under the President’s Comprehensive Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program (CLEEP) to help in the clean-up along with ROTC cadets and students taking up the National Service Training Program (NSTP). (PIA)
