Over 75,000 family food packs at the Department of Social Welfare and Development – Negros Island Region (DSWD – NIR) field office are available for relief operations following the latest minor explosive eruption of Mt. Kanlaon on Friday night, October 24.

“Our field office coordinated with the local government units [LGUs] kung kinakailangan ng tulong ng DSWD. Inalam din natin kung ano ang sitwasyon,” Assistant Secretary Irene Dumlao of the Disaster Response Management Group said in a statement.

In a report to Secretary Rex Gatchalian on Saturday, October 25, DSWD-NIR Regional Director Arwin Razo said no internally displaced persons were recorded in affected localities, such as La Castellana, Canlaon City, Murcia, La Carlota City, and Bago City.

DSWD Quick Response Teams are continuously monitoring and coordinating with LGUs for technical assistance and possible resource augmentation, the report said.

Aside from the prepositioned food packs, the NIR field office’s mobile kitchen, mobile command center and water filtration truck are ready to be deployed anytime. (PNA)