Comrade Le Hong Anh inspected flood and storm recovery in Nghe An

(Baonghean.vn) -On the morning of October 29, Comrade Le Hong Anh, Politburo member, Standing member of the Secretariat, and the Central working delegation had a working session with the leaders of Nghe An province on the situation of overcoming the consequences caused by storms No. 10 and 11 in the locality. Receiving and working with the delegation, on the side of Nghe An province were comrades Ho Duc Phoc - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Tran Hong Chau - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Nguyen Xuan Duong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, comrades members of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Vice Chairmen of the Provincial People's Committee, leaders of provincial departments and branches.

Comrade Le Hong Anh spoke at the meeting

According to the report of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee, storms No. 10 and 11 killed 6 people, seriously injured 2 people, collapsed 32 houses, flooded 31,605 houses, damaged 14 boats, 232 cars and construction machines, 22,026.9 hectares of agricultural and aquatic production area. Estimated economic damage was 1,691.7 billion VND. Although Party committees, authorities at all levels and local people have made efforts to overcome the consequences caused by storms and floods, many infrastructure works such as transportation, irrigation, schools, clinics, electricity and water... were seriously damaged.

Comrade Ho Duc Phoc - Provincial Party Secretary reported at the meeting

To continue restoring production, repairing essential works, and stabilizing people's production, Nghe An province proposed that the central government urgently support disinfectants, rice, and funds to repair people's infrastructure of about 400 billion VND; support 2.5 billion VND for Hoang Mai town and Quynh Luu district to repair damaged and flooded facilities. In addition, the province also proposed that the central government support funding and allocate capital to repair and ensure the safety of dams and reservoirs, restore traffic works, of which the most urgent is 58 suspension bridges across rivers and streams; allocate capital for the province to continue implementing key flood and storm prevention projects, especially upgrading two main national highways, National Highway 7 and National Highway 8 to Laos; build shelters for boats and ships, etc.

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Duong reports on the situation of overcoming the consequences of storms and floods.

At the meeting, Nghe An province leaders also proposed that the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment consider increasing the number of hydrological measuring stations in sub-regions with large reservoirs; the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development build a project to protect the downstream areas of large dams with flood scenarios when emergency flood discharge or dam break occurs because Nghe An is a region with complex climate and frequent natural disasters.

Clip about the working session of comrade Le Hong Anh with leaders of Nghe An province:

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Representative of the Ministry of Transport speaking at the meeting

Speaking at the meeting, comrade Le Hong Anh acknowledged the efforts of Nghe An province in preventing and overcoming the consequences caused by storms No. 10 and 11 in the area. He requested the province to continue directing all levels and sectors to focus on overcoming the consequences of storms and floods; increase forces, means, and materials to restore facilities and essential infrastructure, handle environmental sanitation, provide medicine and secondary equipment to ensure health care for the people. In addition, Nghe An province needs to focus on mobilizing local resources and taking advantage of resources to support people in overcoming the consequences of floods, soon stabilizing production and life.

Comrade Le Hong Anh noted that Nghe An's proposals and recommendations to overcome the damage caused by storms No. 10 and 11 will be reported to the Politburo and asked central ministries and branches to consider and resolve them.

Khanh Ly - Sy Minh