Da Bac district was severely affected by the recent downpours
and flooding, which claimed six lives and left five others missing. Meanwhile,
51 houses collapsed or were washed away while 325 houses were impacted by
landslides and three were unroofed. The district evacuated 211 households from
dangerous areas, but 560 other families are still residing in vulnerable areas
and need urgent evacuation. Downpours and flooding also caused serious damage
to local infrastructure, agricultural production and people’s assets. Total
losses are estimated at over 249 billion VND (10.96 million USD).
Bui Van Tinh, member of the Party Central Committee and
Secretary of the Hoa Binh provincial Party Committee, and local officials
examine the construction of a resettlement area in Lau Bai hamlet of Vay Nua
commune, Da Bac district.
Provincial and district authorities are concurrently carrying
out two important tasks: recovering production activities and stabilising
locals’ lives.
Bui Van Tinh, member of the Party Central Committee and
Secretary of the Hoa Binh provincial Party Committee, visits and presents gifts
to residents in the resettlement area of Lau Bai hamlet in Vay Nua commune, Da
Bac district.
Speaking at the working session, Secretary of the provincial
Party Committee Bui Van Tinh appreciated Da Bac’s efforts to support local
residents and address flood consequences. He asked local authorities to
continue searching for missing people and step up communication activities to
call on people to join hands with the administration to soon resume economic
activities and stabilise their lives.
The district’s authorities and relevant
departments and sectors need to swiftly provide aid for affected organisations
and people, while supporting them with crop seeds and seedlings to help recover
agricultural activities.
They also need to ensure that resettlement areas
suit people’s custom and meet their production demand. They must force
residents in vulnerable areas to move to resettlement areas to ensure their
long-term safety, he said, adding that authorities must also pay attention to
environmental issues to prevent post-flood disease outbreaks.
Tinh said the reception and distribution of
flood relief must ensure that aid is delivered to targeted people and not lost.
He asked authorities and relevant forces to summon all efforts to help ease
difficulties facing local people.
Prior to the working session, the provincial
Party leader had inspected the settlement of flood consequences in Vay Nua
commune, presented aid packages to 33 households in the resettlement area of the
commune’s Lau Bai hamlet, and examined landslide addressing efforts at Chau
Lake in Tu Ly commune./.
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