The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said that it has already prepositioned relief supplies in the provinces, cities and municipalities along the path of Typhoon Dodong to ensure faster delivery to families that will be affected by the cyclone.

In a press briefing this morning at the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRM), the country’s weather bureau, PAG-ASA, reported that ‘Dodong’ ‘s’ track is directed towards Cagayan in the town of Sta. Ana.

With this, DSWD-Field Office II continues to be on alert with  members of its Quick Response Team (QRT) ready to be deployed to assist local government units in  disaster operations and management of evacuation centers. 

The Field Office has an available 26,729 family food packs. Of this, 16,685 packs have already been propositioned to the provinces of Cagayan, Isabela, Quirino and Nueva Viscaya.

To replenish the level of its stockpile of goods, the Field-Office also continues to repack family food packs using available resources that include 2,373 sacks of NFA rice and 2,021 boxes of assorted canned goods.

Meanwhile, DSWD Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman has instructed for the deployment of additional personnel at the National Resource Operations Center (NROC) in Pasay City, the Department’s main relief hub and operations center to help in the over all disaster management and response.

Continuous repacking of goods is also being undertaken at NROC where  a number of volunteers from Hewlett Packard Philippines and from the Philippine Navy helped repack goods.###