The Chairman of the People's Committee of the district shall be responsible if there is serious damage due to the prevention and control of hunger and cold.

The telegram stated: In recent days, due to the influence of strong cold air, Nghe An has experienced severe cold, with some mountainous areas having temperatures lower than 9 degrees Celsius.⁰C, affecting people's health and livestock and agricultural production.

According to the forecast of the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, severe cold may continue in the coming days; low temperatures, drizzle, high humidity and scarce food sources will greatly affect people's lives, the resistance and growth of crops and livestock.

To proactively respond to severe cold, protect people's health, minimize damage to agricultural production, protect people's health and livelihoods, ensure essential food sources to serve market demand at the end of the year and Lunar New Year, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Head of the Provincial Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control - Search and Rescue and Civil Defense requested the Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control - Search and Rescue and Civil Defense; Directors of departments; Heads of branches, sectors, and organizations; Chairmen of People's Committees of districts, cities, and towns to closely monitor weather developments, proactively direct and deploy measures to respond to severe cold.

Chairman of People's Committee of districts, cities and towns:Proactively propagate and guide people to take measures to prevent cold, ensure health and safety (do not use coal stoves to heat in closed rooms to avoid unfortunate incidents, causing human damage); prevent fires and explosions when heating; pay special attention to preventing cold and other extreme weather events for the elderly, children and the disadvantaged... Based on the specific weather situation in the locality, proactively let students take time off from school according to regulations.

Focus on directing and synchronously implementing measures to prevent and combat hunger, cold, and epidemics for crops, livestock, and aquatic products to minimize damage to agricultural production. Absolutely do not be subjective or negligent; promptly organize working groups to go to the grassroots, especially in highland communes to directly propagate, guide, inspect, and urge the work of preventing and combating cold for people, crops, and livestock; propagate, mobilize, and disseminate to the people safe and effective methods and skills to prevent and combat cold, especially for the elderly, people with underlying diseases, children, etc.

Households that graze cattle in the forest must move their livestock to pens or sheltered places with adequate conditions to ensure that the cattle do not get cold; do not graze or let buffaloes and cows work when there is severe cold; apply a late-grazing and early-returning regime. Encourage people to proactively store and preserve roughage and concentrated feed for livestock, ensuring enough feed for livestock during the winter-spring crop.

At the same time, proactively arrange local budgets and local resources to promptly serve the work of preventing and fighting hunger, cold, and epidemics for livestock, aquatic products, and crops; promptly support materials and funds for poor households, ethnic minority households, and policy families to reinforce and cover barns, seed ponds, seedling gardens, especially spring seedlings, and purchase concentrated feed for grazing livestock, fertilizers, and biological products to increase cold resistance for crops.

The Chairmen of the People's Committees of districts, cities and towns are responsible to the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee if there are epidemics, human losses and large losses of crops and livestock due to subjectivity, negligence, and failure to fully and promptly implement measures to prevent and combat hunger and cold (especially severe cold).

Department of Education and TrainingThere are guidelines for educational and training institutions on students' absence from school during severe cold and other unusual events due to cold.

Department of Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentFocus on directing and closely monitoring weather developments, guiding localities to implement cold and disease prevention and control for livestock, poultry, aquatic products and crops; develop and guide winter-spring crop production plans, and crop structures suitable to weather conditions.

Health serviceCoordinate with media agencies to disseminate knowledge, guide and advise people to take effective measures to prevent and fight the cold, ensure health safety, avoid the risk of gas poisoning when burning coal and firewood to warm up in closed rooms; direct grassroots medical forces to ensure necessary medicines, and organize medical examination and treatment for people.

North Central Region Hydrometeorological StationClosely monitor, forecast, warn, and provide timely information on weather conditions, severe cold, and frost so that authorities and media agencies can convey to the people and proactively deploy effective response measures to severe cold.

Units: Provincial Radio and Television Station, Nghe An Newspaper, press agenciesIt is necessary to spend reasonable time and time frames, and have measures to propagate and disseminate on mass media methods and skills to prevent and fight cold for people, livestock, poultry, pets, agricultural production, etc.

Directors of Departments, Heads of relevant sectors according to assigned State management functionsProactively direct and coordinate with localities to promptly and effectively respond to severe cold.

Provincial Steering Committee for Disaster Prevention, Search and Rescue and Civil DefenseOrganize on-duty teams to closely monitor natural disaster situations, proactively direct, inspect, and urge localities to deploy disaster prevention, response, and mitigation work, and limit damage caused by natural disasters; promptly report and propose to competent authorities to direct and handle issues beyond their authority.

Phu Huong