March 17, 2011
Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly members of the Japanese Communist Party on March 16 requested Governor Ishihara Shintaro to take emergency measures in relation to the Great East Japan Disaster.
The JCP assembly group pointed out that the “rolling blackouts” have affected medical and nursing-care facilities and that difficulties from the fuel shortage are increasing in Tokyo. The assembly members called on the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to request Tokyo Electric Power Co. to place priority on the supply of electricity to railways, waterworks, hospitals and nursing-care facilities.
They also demanded that medical and nursing-care facilities be given top priority in the supply of fuel, measures be taken against the danger of residents in high-rise municipal housing units being trapped in elevators during blackouts, and that iodine tablets be sufficiently prepared for distribution if needed.
The JCP assembly group also called on the metropolitan government to directly contact the disaster-hit prefectures in order to enhance support in transport of materials and to send more rescue teams. They proposed that the Tokyo government accommodate disaster victims and evacuees in the over 10,000 vacancies in municipal facilities.
The JCP assembly group pointed out that the “rolling blackouts” have affected medical and nursing-care facilities and that difficulties from the fuel shortage are increasing in Tokyo. The assembly members called on the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to request Tokyo Electric Power Co. to place priority on the supply of electricity to railways, waterworks, hospitals and nursing-care facilities.
They also demanded that medical and nursing-care facilities be given top priority in the supply of fuel, measures be taken against the danger of residents in high-rise municipal housing units being trapped in elevators during blackouts, and that iodine tablets be sufficiently prepared for distribution if needed.
The JCP assembly group also called on the metropolitan government to directly contact the disaster-hit prefectures in order to enhance support in transport of materials and to send more rescue teams. They proposed that the Tokyo government accommodate disaster victims and evacuees in the over 10,000 vacancies in municipal facilities.
