Proactive and determined in natural disaster prevention and search and rescue in Nghe An

Phu Huong DNUM_CCZAFZCACC 09:18

(Baonghean.vn) - In the country and around the world, natural disasters in recent years have continued to develop abnormally and fiercely. In Nghe An, natural disasters often occur at any time, in all seasons of the year.

Nghe An Newspaper reporter interviewed Mr. Nguyen Truong Thanh, Head of the Irrigation Sub-Department, about proactively improving forecasting, response and recovery capacity to minimize the negative impacts of natural disasters on socio-economic development in Nghe An province.
PV: Sir! What difficulties does Nghe An have in natural disaster prevention and search and rescue?
Mr. Nguyen Truong Thanh:In line with the general trend, in Nghe An province, natural disasters are becoming increasingly complex. In 2021, from the beginning of the year, extreme weather phenomena such as tornadoes, lightning, and cold spells have appeared; all kinds oftype of natural disasteroccur as cold air, heat, tornadoes, lightning, hail and widespread heavy rain.

Nghe An has a large area, many mountains, complex terrain, difficult transportation, many areas are easily isolated when natural disasters occur, so disaster prevention and search and rescue work faces many difficulties.


Natural disasters have had a major impact on people's lives and socio-economy; greatly affecting people, agricultural and forestry production, and severely damaging infrastructure. In 2021, the estimated economic loss was nearly 699 billion VND. Accidents at sea also killed 23 people and left 7 missing.

Mr. Nguyen Truong Thanh



Nhiều vùng dân cư của huyện Thanh Chương ngập trong nước lũ ở đợt mưa lụt tháng 9/2020. Ảnh: tư liệu Báo Nghệ An
Many residential areas of Thanh Chuong district were submerged in floodwaters during the September 2020 floods. Photo: Nghe An Newspaper

PV: So over the past years, what solutions has Nghe An had to minimize the adverse impacts of natural disasters, sir?

Mr. Nguyen Truong Thanh:In fact, the province has always paid serious attention to and directed the work of natural disaster prevention and control, search and rescue; the Provincial Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, together with sectors, localities and units, have resolutely and synchronously deployed and well prepared all three stages of prevention, response and overcoming consequences, thereby limiting many losses in terms of human life and property, and gradually building a safe society against natural disasters.
Mưa bão, ứng ngập, thiên tai còn  thường xuyên gây hạn hán khốc liệt ở Nghệ An. Ảnh: Phú Hương
Storms, floods, and natural disasters often cause severe drought in Nghe An. Photo: Phu Huong

Right from the beginning of the year, before the rainy season, we have proactively developed response plans to respond to natural disaster risks at all levels. Currently, the scenarios and plans for natural disaster prevention of localities and units are being approved by competent authorities. Particularly for weak projects, we are currently proposing that the Provincial People's Committee allocate funds for repair, renovation and upgrading to be proactive indisaster prevention, not to let any unfortunate incidents happen.

Đoàn côg tác Ban chỉ đạo Quốc gia Phòng chống thiên tai và tìm kiếm cứu nạn kiểm tra phương án phòng chống tại đập Ba Khe, Nam Đàn. Ảnh: Phú Hương
The working delegation of the National Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control and Search and Rescue inspected the prevention plan at Ba Khe Dam, Nam Dan before the 2021 storm season. Photo: Phu Huong

In response to natural disaster risks at all levels, localities and units have proactively developed specific plans. The Provincial People's Committee has also issued Decisions on proactive response to natural disasters in the province, developed dike protection plans, natural disaster prevention plans at large reservoirs, etc. At the same time, it has developed recovery scenarios after natural disasters cause consequences for production and people's lives.

Xây dựng các tuyến đê biển ở Hoàng Mai nhằm nâng cao năng lẹc phòng chống thiên tai. Ảnh: Phú Hương
Building sea dykes in Hoang Mai to improve disaster prevention capacity. Photo: Phu Huong

In particular, identify awareness and skills enhancementrespondof all levels of government, people and community is extremely important in disaster prevention and search and rescue. In recent years, Nghe An has focused on propaganda for officials at all levels of government and people, helping to improve people's knowledge and response skills when natural disasters and catastrophes occur, in order to minimize human and property damage after natural disasters.

Lãnh đạo tỉnh chỉ đạo công átc gạn triều tiêu úng tại bara Diễn Thành trước bão. Ảnh: Phú Hương
Provincial leaders direct the work of de-watering at Dien Thanh wharf before the storm. Photo: Phu Huong

Along with that, continue to invest in infrastructure, consolidate, upgrade, repair, and overcome incidents of dikes, dams, and disaster prevention and control works; promote the application of science and technology in disaster prevention.

PV: In the coming time, how do you predict natural disasters will continue to have unpredictable developments, sir?
Mr. Nguyen Truong Thanh:According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, this year our country is likely to experiencestrong storm against the lawwith about 12-14 storms and tropical depressions operating in the East Sea. Rainfall tends to increase nationwide, with a high possibility of extreme rainfall. Natural disasters continue to develop very complicatedly and abnormally.

According to information from the National Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control and National Search and Rescue, from the beginning of 2022 to now, the total damage caused by natural disasters is estimated at 2,400 billion VND, nearly half of the economic damage caused by natural disasters in 2021.

Thành phố Vinh
Vinh City "fell" in the flood in October 2020. Photo: Nghe An Newspaper

Despite many efforts, according to the general assessment, disaster prevention and search and rescue work still has many shortcomings. The ability to respond to major natural disasters is still passive and confused; the resilience of infrastructure is still inadequate, the system of equipment serving disaster prevention andsearch and rescuestill limited… In particular, a part of the people and the government are still subjective and careless, leading to unfortunate losses, especially human losses.

PV: So, in your opinion, what should localities, units and each person do to best respond to the impacts of natural disasters on production and life?
Mr. Nguyen Truong Thanh:At the recent national conference on the implementation of natural disaster prevention and control and search and rescue, Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh, Head of the National Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, Chairman of the National Committee for Natural Disaster Response and Search and Rescue, emphasized: We need to strongly shift from passive response to proactive prevention, improve the quality of forecasting, warning and monitoring and supervision of natural disasters. From there, there will be urgent, timely and effective solutions.
Nông dân lắp máy bớm dã chiến
Farmers install field pumps to "save" summer-autumn rice crop. Photo: Phu Huong

Based on the scenarios and plans that have been developed, when a natural disaster occurs, localities and units must promptly respond immediately. In particular, it is necessary to implement the "4 on-site" motto well in localities, especially in difficult areas that will be cut off and isolated in terms of communication and transportation. In fact, in recent years, theassault teamDisaster prevention and control have coordinated their activities very effectively. We need to continue to strengthen and improve the capacity and activities of this force to improve response capacity in each locality and unit to minimize damage to both people and property.

Tháng 8/2019, Thủy điện Bản Vẽ buộc phải xả lũ ở mức xả lớn nhất kể từ lúc nhà máy Thủy điện đi vào vận hành năm 2010 do tác động của mưa to kết hợp lũ từ Lào đổ về. Ảnh: tư liệu Phú Hương
In August 2019, Ban Ve Hydropower Plant was forced to discharge floodwater at the highest level since the Hydropower Plant went into operation in 2010 due to the impact of heavy rain combined with floods from Laos. Photo: Document: Phu Huong

After a natural disaster, to bring activities back to normal, recovery work is very important. It is necessary to stick to the scenario, urgently overcome the consequences of natural disasters as quickly as possible to ensure the stability of people's lives and production, in which special attention is paid to environmental treatment issues.

In recent years, there has been almost no year where we have not suffered human losses due to natural disasters. Along with raising awareness, in building and implementing PCTT and TKCN scenarios, special attention must be paid.safety planfor people in areas sensitive to natural disasters such as areas at risk of flash floods, landslides; areas prone to flooding, coastal areas need to proactively evacuate residents to prevent big storms causing high tides. Conduct drills carefully to be fully proactive when storms come.
PVThank you!


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