07.04.2025 – 11.04.2025 (Weekly)

The damaged staff housing will be rebuilt, and the reconstruction should be carried out in accordance with the specifications. Many lives were lost due to careless construction of buildings. Construction work should be carried out in accordance with the specifications, and SOPs should be drawn up and issued in future construction projects and implemented systematically. The Prime Minister also emphasized that officials should be vigilant in carrying out construction work to prevent major losses in the future.

The severe earthquake has so far claimed 3,455 lives, injured 4,840 people, and missing 214 people, totaling more than 8,600. Although detailed figures are not yet available, 5,223 buildings, 1,824 schools, 2,752 monasteries and nunneries have been damaged or destroyed. The damage was extensive, with 4,817 pagodas and pagodas damaged, 167 hospitals and clinics damaged, the Yangon-Nay Pyi Taw-Mandalay railway and roads damaged and some stations damaged, 169 bridges damaged, 189 irrigation dams damaged, and 184 sections of highways damaged, the Prime Minister said.

He said that all communication lines should be reopened as soon as possible. Regarding foreign aid, there are organizations that really want to provide assistance to the affected areas, but there may be negative arrivals using the earthquake as an excuse, so it is necessary to systematically scrutinize and accept them. It is necessary to distribute aid supplies sent from abroad to those in need as soon as possible. In providing relief supplies, it is also necessary to systematically record and ensure that all those affected by the earthquake and those who deserve it receive them. The Prime Minister, Chairman of the National Disaster Response Force, said that all responsible parties need to work diligently to ensure that there are no duplicate records and that there are no survivors, and that there is a need to systematically record those who have lost limbs in the earthquake disaster.