The Provincial Government already completed the relief operations for the victims of Typhoon “Quinta,” but more donations are still pouring to totally help the victims recover from the disaster.

Provincial Administrator Raul Banias confirmed the last trucks of relief goods left the city yesterday to distribute 500 family packs to the affected residents of the towns of Dueñas, Lambunao and Concepcion.

He said the family packs are from the Department of Social Welfare and Development which include canned goods, rice, noodles, drinking water, among others.

He added there are groups and agencies which still send donations or relief goods for distribution.

Meanwhile, Iloilo Governor Arthur Defensor, Sr. maintained the provincial government will push through with its rehabilitation plan despite the petition for temporary restraining order filed by lawyer of Fourth District Rep. Ferjenel Biron.

Defensor stressed the rehabilitation is not the sole responsibility of the provincial government but also of the national government and other national agencies like the Department of Public Works and Highways and the Department of Social Welfare and Development.

He said the Province will involve itself in the rehabilitation of roads and bridges, especially in the hardest hit towns, and in towns which really needed financial aid to repair their damaged or destroyed infrastructures.

Defensor also stressed that the declaration of state of calamity, which Biron also reportedly questioned, hastened the relief operations in Iloilo following the December 26, 2012 devastations caused by Typhoon “Quinta.”

“Naging epektibo ang pagbulig ta sa mga biktima sang baha kag bagyo…Ang kwarta nga 

ginausar sa calamity fund, iya na ya sang pumuluyo, ginabalik lang sa pumuluyo,” he concluded.*