Quang Tri (VNA) - Truong Thi Mai, Politburo member and Chairwoman of the Party Central Committee’s Commissionfor Mass Mobilisation, has stressed the need to stabilise livelihoodsof people in the central province of Quang Tri, who have suffered huge damagefrom storm Molave.

Visiting the province on November 1, the Partyofficial spoke highly of the locality’s efforts to respond to the storm, sayingthe State has carried out many support policies for flood-hit provinces toensure that they will overcome consequences of the storm in a timely manner.

She also ordered the local authorities and people to outline rational response plans to mitigate losses of life and property since the storm season is going on inthe central region.  

On the occasion, Mai presented gifts to 100local families who were hardest hit by recent floods.

Storm Molave left 50 people dead and four missing in Quang Tri province. Totaldamage caused by the storm was calculated at more than 2 trillion VND (86.32million USD).

The same day, Chairwoman of the Vietnam Red Cross Society Nguyen Thi Xuan Thu presented 100 relief gifts,each worth 1 million VND, to residents in neighbouring Thua Thien-Hue province, which wascritically battered by the storm.

She expressed her hope that the local authorities will continue efforts to helpflood-hit people stabilise their lives and production soon.

Whilein Quang Ngai province, the “warm house” programme was carried out by theprovincial youth union, provincial Party Committee’s Board for Mass Mobilisation,and the organising board of Miss Vietnam 2020 to support local people to weather the consequences of storm Molave.

Some 1.2 billion VND was presented to the province to repair houses forfamilies having their accommodations collapsed in the storm.  

Thirteen people were injured, 325 houses were damaged, and over 140,000 houseshaving their roofs blown away due to the impacts of Molave./.