With the absence of enough food and water in typhoon ‘Yolanda’-stricken areas, a health official on Friday said that some survivors lived on coconut juice.

“One of the impressions is that there was total absence of food and water. Some victims survived on coconut juice,” Health Undersecretary Janette Garin said in a TV interview.

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