The Prime Minister ordered to focus on overcoming the consequences of the floods and the response to storms No 7

The power declared: In these days, heavy rains and large-scale floods have caused serious damage to people and property in the Central region. The Prime Minister sent his greetings to the levels of commissioners, authorities and people of the localities and his deepest condolences to the relatives of families with deceased and missing persons.

In the days ahead, natural calamities remain complicated. In order to proactively respond and limit damage to people’s life and property, the Prime Minister requests the Central Steering Committee for the Prevention and Control of Natural Disasters, the National Committee for Incident Response and Search and Disaster rescue, concerned ministries, branches and localities continue to respond to and rapidly overcome the consequences of floods and rains, and closely monitor the developments of Storm No. 7 and the tropical depression to steer and develop rapidly responding under the motto ” four on the ground “, focusing on the following tasks:

Respond to and overcome the consequences of rains and floods in the central provinces: Localities from Quang Binh to Binh Dinh and the Central Highlands region continue to strictly implement Prime Minister’s Telegram No. 1372 / CD-TTg dated October 8, 2020 which focuses on coping with heavy rains and floods. In the central provinces, the focus is on some of the following tasks:

Focus on ensuring the safety of people’s lives: evacuate and relocate the population out of dangerous areas, especially in deeply flooded residential areas, areas prone to landslides and flash floods; Improve control and guide traffic safety in deeply eroded and flooded areas, especially by underground spills and piers.

Organize a search for missing persons; visit and encourage affected families, especially those with deceased or missing persons; healing of injured people; provide emergency aid for food and necessities for households at risk of hunger, organize temporary accommodation for displaced households, prevent people from starving, cold and homeless.

Mobilize forces on the ground to help people overcome the consequences of rains and floods; prepare plans to restore damaged infrastructure works to serve daily life and restore production immediately after the flood recedes.

The Ministry of Health directs the execution of medical work, ensures the medical examination and treatment of people in flooded areas, guides the treatment of environmental sanitation, the prevention of epidemics after the floods; Prepare a series of medicines, chemicals to treat water sources and the environment, ready to support the locality when necessary.

The Ministry of Finance supervises and coordinates with functional agencies to quickly and adequately handle local emergency relief needs related to national reserve assets, especially food, tarps, and life buoys. life at the service of facing and overcoming the consequences of rain and floods.

The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs will assume primary responsibility for promptly reporting and proposing food support to support people in flooded areas.

Response to Typhoon No. 7 and Tropical Depression: The provinces actively implement measures to respond to storms No. 7 and tropical depressions to ensure the safety of people and production activities, in which attention should be paid to ensuring the safety of people and means of operation. cave in the sea; proactively relocate people from hazardous areas; protection of levees, dams and lakes; protection of agricultural production, aquaculture, shellfish, …

Central Ministries and Agencies: The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment organizes close monitoring of developments, timely forecasts and provides information to relevant people and agencies to serve the direction and response. vice.

The National Committee for Response to Incidents and Disasters and Search and Rescue, the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Public Security will lead the units based in the area to actively organize the forces and means to assist the local in the evacuation of the victims. People, rescue, rescue and overcome the consequences of rain and floods when necessary.

The Ministry of Transport will direct the assurance of the safety of the means of transport, it will not allow incidents to occur in transport vessels as in the past; Quick solution on the main traffic routes.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will direct the work of ensuring the safety of agricultural production activities; protect levees, irrigation dams and lakes.

The Ministry of Industry and Commerce will direct the work of ensuring the safety and safe operation of the dams and hydroelectric reservoirs and the electrical systems; quickly overcome electrical problems; securing food and essential goods in areas affected by storms and floods.

Other ministries and branches actively coordinate and support localities to overcome the consequences of rains and floods and implement measures to deal with tropical storms and depressions in accordance with their state management functions and assigned tasks.

The news and press agencies periodically update information on changes in tropical low pressures, storms, floods; Increase the transmission time, transmission of information in the media so that people can know it and actively prevent it.

The Central Steering Committee for the Prevention and Control of Natural Disasters will closely monitor the development of storms, tropical depression and floods; regularly update and announce the danger zone so that ships and means of transport do not enter and take the initiative and exit the danger zone; guide and urge ministries, branches and localities to take measures to respond to and overcome the consequences of natural disasters; report immediately to the Prime Minister to direct the handling of affairs beyond authority.

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