Displaced families to get financial assistance: Marcos

ridion Lambojon in a message for Mr Marcos as he spoke to ST, tears streaming down his face as he stood in front of the white coffins of his relatives.

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"We need new homes because the earthquake wiped out our entire village," he added.

The President said 10,000 pesos will be given to every displaced family as initial assistance as the government works to help them in the months ahead.

At Cebu Provincial Hospital in Bogo, patients were initially being treated in tents erected in the car-park after the quake rendered parts of the main building structurally unsafe. But government engineers finally cleared the hospital as safe for use again in the afternoon of Oct 2.