A congressman in a party-list urged
national government and the local government units to avoid using the public
schools as means of evacuation centers during disasters and calamities.
The Bicol Representative Rodel
Batocabe made his appeal on the first anniversary of the super typhoon Yolanda.
Batocabe said that the practice
of our government for using schools as immediate evacuation centers is considered
more costly the part of the taxpayers and creates new group of evacuees the pupils,
the students and even the teachers who were driven away from classrooms.
Now is the time for us to start a
paradigm shift from the using classrooms as evacuation centers to sending
evacuees to government lands and other edifices, setting up a permanent
evacuation centers or designated sites Batocabe said.
Batocabe also said that classrooms
were not designed to adequately meet needs of evacuees, who face a scarcity of
water supplies and other facilities, with poor ventilation, lighting, and
overcrowding.
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