The province of Occidental Mindoro has been placed under a state of calamity due to its worsening electricity crisis.
Local officials made the declaration so that emergency or calamity funds can be used to address the crisis affecting the education of its students, and the health and livelihood of residents in the province for more than a month.
Officials said they make do with only four hours per day of electricity supply—that is, 20 hours without electricity every day in the province. “One of the biggest things we need here is ice. We have a lot of fish products, but all our ice comes from other places,” she added. The root of the problem, according to reports, is the nearly P1 billion subsidy charged by OMCPC from the National Power Corporation that would have sold diesel to run the power plant.
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