STATE Administration Council Chairman Prime Minister Sen­ior General Min Aung Hlaing held a work coordination meet­ing for relief and rehabilitation activities for areas stricken by the severe cyclonic storm Mo­cha at the Office of Command­er-in-Chief yesterday.

The meeting was attended by SAC Joint Secretary Lt-Gen Ye Win Oo, Union Ministers U Win Shein, U Khin Maung Yee, U Min Naung and U Myo Thant, Yangon Region Chief Minister U Soe Thein, Chief of General Staff (Army, Navy and Air) General Maung Maung Aye, Commander-in-Chief (Navy) Admiral Moe Aung, Commander-in-Chief (Air) General Tun Aung, high-rank­ing Tatmadaw officers from the Office of Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services and the responsible personnel.

First of all, General Maung Maung Aye explained matters relating to the relief and reha­bilitation measures being car­ried out in the storm-stricken areas. Afterwards, the Union ministers, the Yangon Region chief minister, the high-rank­ing officers from the Office of Commander-in-Chief of De­fence Services and the Yangon Command commander sub­mitted matters relating to the possibility of monsoon entering Yangon Region and middle My­anmar in May, providing food and relief assistance donated by Tatmadaw family members and the well-wishing working people, the relief supplies pro­vided by the National Disaster Management Committee and the relief teams, the situation on transporting relief aid and supplies by Tatmadaw aircraft, helicopters and naval vessels, the medical cover, measures being taken for recultivation in the storm-hit areas, sending of the veterinary doctors, the repair and restoration works for the damaged schools and hospitals and providing con­struction materials.

After hearing their ex¬planations, the Senior Gen­eral replied that Sittway and Rathedaung are the worst hit in Rakhine State, that there were also some casualties, that meetings are to be held on a daily basis to focus on the worst hit areas, that pro­viding the relief items is to be carried out systematically with the transactions entered into the register, that priority is to be given to providing of suf­ficient food supplies as well as to ensuring no communica­tion breakdown, that the trees blocking the roads are to be cleared off, that the trees hin­dering the electric lamp posts and the wire cables are also needed to be cleared off and that more relief supplies are to arrive soon. He went on to say that the conveyors are to be made ready to be able to trans­port the relief aids swiftly, that the mobile healthcare teams and the special healthcare teams are to provide health­care services to the full, and those relief and rehabilitation tasks are to be undertaken ef­fectively and efficiently with the use of necessary human resources and machinery, that more shelters are required to be built and that the military engineering corps is needed to provide assistance as and where necessary.

Next, he concluded, among other things, that it is neces­sary to make arrangements for transporting meat and fish cans and that the responsible personnel are required to see to the needs of the monasteries and nunneries.

MNA

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