The Iloilo City Goverment will be implementing more projects, programs, and activities to prevent the entry of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-9).
On Friday, March 20, the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) approved a resolution allowing the release of more than P77 million from the 2019 Unexpended Local Disaster Risk Reduction Fund and Quick Response Fund.
The amount is intended for undertakings against COVID-19.
Iloilo City remained free of the dreaded disease, which already infected more than 200 persons in other parts of the country.
“But the city has increasing number[s] of persons under monitoring (913) and patient under investigation (24),” a part of the resolution read.
“The preventive and response measures require funds to carry out the initiatives of the various stakeholders, particularly that of the City Health Office (CHO) and the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO).”
Councilor Julie Grace L. Baronda said the city government will purchase, among others, protective gears, medical equipment, and relief goods for residents in the city affected by the implementation of the “enhanced community quarantine.”
On Monday, March 16, President Rodrigo Duterte placed the entire country under a state of calamity.
The declaration enables the national government as well as local government units to utilize “appropriate funds, including the Quick Response Fund, in their disaster preparedness and response efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 and to continue to provide basic services to the affected population,” the President said.IMT
