Personnel from the Department of Health-Bicol conduct post-typhoon health response in the Bicol Region following the onslaught of Typhoon Opong on Friday (Sept. 26, 2025). The agency assured the public of continued services in evacuation centers and affected communities. (Photo courtesy of DOH)
The Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday assured the public that medical services remain uninterrupted in evacuation centers and storm-affected communities across Luzon and the Visayas following the onslaught of Typhoon Opong.
The DOH reported that free consultations and medicines are being provided in 230 evacuation centers in Eastern Samar and 127 in Metro Manila. Health response operations have also been mobilized in Masbate, one of the provinces hardest hit after Opong made landfall on Friday.
Masbate has since been placed under a state of calamity by Governor Richard Kho. To reinforce local health workers, the DOH has deployed 15 doctors to the barrios and 59 nurses in the province.
Meanwhile, recovery efforts are underway in Calabarzon, where more than 6,700 families have begun returning to their homes.
Latest figures from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) showed that over 23,300 families have been served inside 1,482 evacuation centers nationwide since Tropical Depression Mirasol struck Aurora last week, followed by Typhoon Opong’s devastation in the Visayas.