“Judging by the messages I have been receiving, the system has not started functioning yet,” Grmoja said at a news conference in Petrinja, a town in Sisak-Moslavina County hit by a 6.2 magnitude earthquake on 29 December.
He said that MOST members had been on the ground in the quake-hit area from the first day, distributing aid, preparing hot meals and helping in other ways.
Gaspar Sako, the party’s coordinator for Petrinja, said the situation in the town was bad, that local residents were desperate, that it was cold and that not everyone had been provided with temporary accommodation yet.
She called on the government and state institutions to do something urgently.
“A proposal was launched last night in Petrinja for (the state-owned company) Pleter to withdraw and for cooks from around the country to continue preparing hot meals in the town. Citizens are wondering why our catering sector, which had to close down due to the coronavirus epidemic, should not get involved,” she said.
State institutions fail every time a natural disaster hits Croatia, as evidenced by the 2014 floods in Gunja, the coronavirus epidemic and now the earthquake, said Gaspar Sako.
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