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‘Many shelterees have no home to return to; some have medical needs’
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Posted on Dec 19 2018
The remaining shelterees at the Kagman Emergency Shelter simply have nowhere else to go because of the severity of the damage their homes sustained from Super Typhoon Yutu, according to Department of Community and Cultural Affairs Secretary Robert Hunter yesterday.
“They simply have no home and no options for a place to put a tent,” he added.
Another reason why the Kagman shelter still has about 39 families, or about 150 shelterees in its facility, as of Monday is “they have medical conditions that require power,” Hunter told Saipan Tribune.
While there is no specific date for the closure of the Kagman shelter, Hunter projects that the shelter would be open for at least three months from the typhoon.
“As the weeks roll by, we would be looking at the numbers population-wise and need-wise for those that remain,” he said. “…We would sometime in the interim determine who is [in the shelter, how many are in need] and whatever we need to do to get those people out of the shelter.”
The KESF was only recently used as an emergency long-term shelter for victims of Super Typhoon Yutu late October 2018. The repurposed former juvenile detention facility sustained little damage from Typhoon Yutu, Hunter said in a previous interview, noting that the bunker-like architecture of the facility is ideal for future typhoons. He previously indicated that discussions to make the facility a permanent long-term shelter are in the pipeline.
