We need to prepare better.
This was stressed by the Minister for Agriculture and National Disaster Management Inia Seruiratu while speaking at the Pacific Resilience Disaster Response Exercise and Exchange at GPH today.
He says that with Climate Change, natural disasters are now more frequent and more intense.
Seruiratu adds that it is of utmost importance for us to use lessons learnt from previous disasters to better prepare for the future.
He says that in Fiji we now need to change our paradime in terms of changing from cultural reaction to cultural prevention when faced with disasters.
Seruiratu also highlighted that as preparations are on-going development today must be sustainable and not done just for the sake of development.
Meanwhile, US Army Commanding General, Brigadier General, Doug Anderson says that the 4 day training program that concludes on Friday focuses on key areas such as warning, mitigation, evacuation, Search and Rescue and Medical response training related to disaster response.
