New Scheme must be in place

Change in how the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC) views disaster preparedness should happen.

From now on, communications should be most primordial and pre-positioning of disaster relief must be done in massive proportions, contrary to the measly, pitsi-pitsi concept envisaged by government agencies.

The wreckage and the resulting deaths, the breakdown of law and order in Tacloban City is a witness to the error of calculation by the disaster management experts of the country.

None of this should ever be allowed to happen again, if all of us, including private sector and government care for our people in this country.