PM asked for urgent efforts to overcome flood consequences
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc have instructed ministries, sectors and central localities to mobilised all forces and resources to ensure safety and food for residents in flood-hit areas and minimising losses in human lives and property.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc addresses the event (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi, (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc haveinstructed ministries, sectors and central localities to mobilised all forcesand resources to ensure safety and food for residents in flood-hit areas and minimisinglosses in human lives and property.
“Food and supplies must be brought to residential areas submergedby flood water or isolated at any cost,” he said while chairing an onlinemeeting on December 17 on measures to overcome consequence of devastating floodsin central localities from Thua Thien-Hue to Khanh Hoa.
The PM also urged localities to quickly evacuate residentsfrom areas with high risks of flash flood and landslides.
He ordered localities to ensure safe operation of hydropowerand irrigation reservoirs, contributing to reduce flood in downstream areas.
The localities were requested to prepare forces andresources to restore houses and clean the environment to prevent epidemicsafter floods.
In the long term, the PM directed the Ministry ofAgriculture and Rural Development to coordinate with ministries and localitiesto make overall assessment on flood vulnerability in the central and CentralHighlands regions, which will serve as reference for thorough solutions to thedisaster.
Official statistics show that heavy rain and flood fromDecember 12-16 left 15 deaths and missing, destroying more than 130 houses,inundating nearly 112,000 others. Over 10,000 hectares of rice fields and manyinfrastructure and transportation works were damaged.
According to Ho Quoc Dung, Chairman of the People’sCommittee of south central Binh Dinh province, the province is among the hardesthit localities with 31 deaths so far this year, along with 348 houses totallydestroyed.
He asked for the Government’s emergency aid in the form of food,medicines, school textbooks along with financial support to overcome floodaftermaths.
The flood-hit localities have proposed that the Governmentprovide urgent aid of 5,850 tonnes of rice, 8 tonnes of water purificationtablets, 325 tonnes of rice, maize and vegetable seeds along with over 1.3trillion VND to restore farming, transport and irrigation infrastructure.-VNA
Flooding due to heavy torrential rainfall has taken the lives of 13 people across the central region over the weekend amid fears of more rain this week.
PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued a dispatch, instructing measures to overcome the consequences of floods triggered by heavy rains in the central region, which caused huge losses of lives and assets.
Water in the Hoai River rose up to flood two streets – Bach Dang and Nguyen Thai Hoc – in the ancient city of Hoi An and villages on the Hoai River banks on December 15.
Ministries, agencies and administrations of central provinces have been requested to work harder to deal with the widespread flooding which has left heavy consequences in the central region.
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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc addresses the event (Photo: VNA) 
