(HBO) - From the beginning of the year until now, there have been heat waves in the province. The total monthly rainfall is less than the average of many years but it is greater than the same period last year. Significantly, since the beginning of April, there have been a number of large-scale rains with really heavy rain accompanied by strong winds. These weather patterns have shown the risk of extremely bad weather events such as thunderstorms, lightning, cyclones, hail, especially during the seasonal transition period from the second half of April to the beginning of May.
The project against flooding from the Youth Park to the canal 20 in the area of Chi Lang extended road, being invested by People's Committee of Hoa Binh City is being urgently constructed to ensure the arranged progress.
The experience from the natural disaster prevention and rescue and search work in previous years, the People's Committee of the province, the Provincial Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention & Rescue and Search Work have issued many documents to promptly and drastically respond to the unusual, complex and unpredictable developments of natural disasters, especially responding to the rain, the great floods and particularly large floods from the beginning of the year until now.
The districts and the city have urgently consolidated the Provincial Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention & Rescue and Search Work. The appropriate authorities from the province to the district levels have reviewed and listed in detail the areas where there is a risk of flash floods, pipe floods, landslides, the routes passing the underground and overflow, making plans to relocate people to safe places. At the same time, checking and reviewing the irrigation works and the dykes to promptly detect the damage for repair have taken place. The safety level of irrigation reservoir has been checked and assessed. The plans to conserve water appropriately and the limit of the water volume in the damaged and degraded reservoirs have been set up. The violations of the scope of protection of irrigation works and dikes have been handled.
The People's Committee of the province has urgently directed the implementation of the rescue and search work in the locality according to the motto "four on the spot". They include the full preparation of the forces, supplies and means of backup. The disaster prevention and control at the district’ level has been reviewed and organized with specialized forces. The commune and village levels have also organized shock teams to cope with, observe and warn the potential disasters and promptly notify the households in dangerous areas to prevent them. For areas where landslide has occurred or new relocation and resettlement areas, it is necessary to regularly check and monitor abnormal phenomena in order to actively prevent them.
Hoa Binh is carried out investment projects to upgrade three district medical centres in Lac Son and Yen Thuy districts and Hoa Binh city. The projects are funded by the central budget under the Economic and Social Recovery and Development Programme, aiming to improve healthcare services. The goal is to gradually develop a system of modern and quality district-level healthcare facilities.
To improve the cultural and spiritual life of the elderly, the associations for the elderly at various levels in Hoa Binh province have created many interesting and meaningful activities, attracting the participation of a large number of old people. These activities provide opportunities for them to improve both their physical and mental health, enabling them to live happily and healthily.
The pilot programme for sending Vietnamese workers to the Republic of Korea (RoK) for seasonal agricultural jobs continues under a collaboration between localities of the two countries, running for five years from January 1, 2022.
Staff of the Red Cross Society of Hoa Binh province were deeply moved by a meaningful and humanitarian act by Mr Vu Huu Lung, 86, in Hoa Binh city, to donate his corneas, which brought hopes to those yearning for the light. Before passing away, Lung left behind a noble wish to donate all of his organs, including his corneas, to help patients suffering from blindness and those in need of organ transplants to revive their lives.
In the small house of Bui Van Luong in Bung 2 Hamlet, Thu Phong commune, Cao Phong district, an array of traditional items such as serving trays, woven storage baskets for blankets, sticky rice containers, and bamboo baskets are beautifully and skillfully crafted.
Over the recent past, the education and training sector of Hoa Binh province has paid great attention to reforming management activities, improving teachers’ quality, and innovating teaching methods that focus on quality and efficiency, at the same time with implementing the sector’s emulation campaigns and movements.
