Cotabato, BARMM send aid to calamity-stricken Cebu
COTABATO CITY, Philippines — The provincial government of Cotabato and the health ministry of the Bangsamoro region separately shipped to the calamity-stricken Cebu province medicines for common ailments, hygiene kits and more than 20 tons of other relief provisions, including safe drinking water.
The humanitarian mission team dispatched to Cebu by Bangsamoro Health Minister Kadil Sinolinding Jr., comprised of 41 field medical service workers and physicians from the capitol of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in Cotabato City, arrived in Cebu province early Saturday, November 15.
Cebu and other nearby provinces were jolted by a strong tremor in September and, subsequently, devastated by typhoons Tino (international name: Kalmegi) and Uwan (international name: Fung-Wong) in onslaughts between early November until early this week.
Information officers in the Bangsamoro government disseminated to reporters on Saturday that the relief contingent deployed in Cebu, together organized by Sinolinding, also a member of the region’s 80-seat parliament and their chief minister, Abdulrauf Macacua, brought with them medicines, hygiene kits and other supplies for distribution to residents of Balamban and Asturias towns and to patients in the Everslay Child Sanitarium and General Hospital in Mandaue City.
Thousands of families in Balamban and Asturias were badly affected by the typhoons Nito and Uwan, many left homeless after their houses, made only of semi-permanent materials, were shattered and blown away by powerful winds.
“We have teams for community service missions in Balamban and Asturias and at the Eversley Child Sanitarium and General Hospital in Mandaue City in Cebu province. They brought vital health commodities for distribution during their missions there,” the physician-ophthalmologist Sinolinding said.
Emissaries of Cotabato Gov. Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza and employees of their Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office turned over on Friday, November 14, to local officials in Liloan, Cebu relief supplies transported to the area from their province in Central Mindanao, using six trucks and two smaller van-type vehicles.
The relief supplies from the provincial government of Cotabato in Region 12, consisting of food rations and other essential provisions for Liloan residents displaced by the typhoons Nito and Uwan, were personally turned over to local executives in the municipality by employees of divisions under the office of Taliño-Mendoza and her constituent community leader, Fedis Madeleine Cadungon, president of the National Movement of Young Legislators.
Radio reports on Saturday in Cotabato City and in nearby provinces in Central Mindanao quoted Kath Jumapao, a municipal councilor in Liloan, as saying that they are grateful to the provincial government of Cotabato for providing them with relief supplies their local government unit shall distribute to their constituents.
“We are thankful to the units of the Philippine National Police and the Philippine Army that helped facilitate the transport of the relief supplies from our provincial capitol in Central Mindanao to Liloan in Cebu province,” Mendoza told reporters on Saturday.
Sinolinding said the chiefs of the integrated provincial health offices in Lanao del Sur and in Maguindanao del Sur, the physicians Alinader Minalang ang Ariff Mohammad Baguindali, respectively, shall together oversee another BARMM relief mission in Cebu on November 19.
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