PM Nguyễn Tấn Dũng requests to draw experience and deal with typhoon’s impacts

The Meeting was attended by leaders of many relevant ministries and 13 provinces and cities hit by the Typhoon(Hồ Chí Minh City, Khánh Hòa, Bình Thuận, Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu, Đồng Nai, Tiền Giang, An Giang, Bến Tre, Trà Vinh, Long An, Đồng Tháp, Vĩnh Long, and Cần Thơ).

PM Nguyễn Tấn Dũng represented the Vietnam Communist Party and Government to offer his sympathy to the victim families and share their difficulties and losses.

The PM ordered central and local agencies to draw experience in four major fields: Firstly, forecast work should be more accurate and closely associated with the performance of the radio and television stations. Secondly, the direction and leadership of local authorities should be more thorough, drastic, flexible and creative. Thirdly, the aggregate strength of the political system should be mobilized in people’s removal and evacuation. Fourthly, the searching and rescue work as well as instruction to ships and boats should be carried out more effective and promptly.

According to the PM, the ministries and localities should focus on taking the following 11 measures to deal with the typhoon’s impacts: local authorities collaborate with the Seek and Rescue Committee in searching for missing people; treating the wounded (without fee); burying the dead and consoling the victim families; providing food to disadvantageous households and preventing starvation; promptly recovering people’s accommodation; strictly controlling and stabilizing the markets, preventing speculation and price escalation of necessities; restoring and rebuilding clinics and schools; recovering electric network, environment, water supply and drainage system, and production activities; delaying the payment of old debts and giving ship owners new loans to repair their ships and restart production soon; considering tax exemption or reduction, providing crop varieties, and properly managing and supervising the equal distribution of aids; and ensuring security and order.

At the meeting, PM Nguyễn Tấn Dũng decided to spend VND150 billion from the central contingency budget to support the typhoon-hit provinces./.

By Hoàng Nguyên Hồ