DSWD Region-IV MiMaRoPa has been in close monitor of the areas that took the brunt of  typhoon Yolanda to deliver necessary assistance to identified families that suffer the beating.

Palawan has been the province that was badly damaged and suffered the aftermath of the typhoon. There are 23 evacuation centers in Palawan that still shelter affected families from barangays that were sorely hit by Yolanda namely: Busuanga, Coron, Culion, Linapacan and Agutaya. Nearly 6,500 families were affected in these barangays alone and 1,182 of which have already been served with relief goods from the department.

The region has deployed a total of 400,000 relief goods and concurrently commenced repacking of additional 7,000 prepositioned packs to be allocated to the whole region.

Nearly 27,000 families in MIMAROPA had been affected as yet, and 11 casualties were recorded. Aside from intermittent communication lines due to power outage in affected areas, the geographical form of MiMaRoPa hurdles delivery of assistance.  The QRT of the department is in arms length 24/7 and will be sending representatives from the Field Office in Manila to Coron and Busuanga as augmentation of support today and to fastract relief distributions on site. This will also hasten the rapid needs assessment of the affected areas.