Currently, the situation of heavy rain and flooding in the Central region of Vietnam is very serious, causing significant losses in terms of human lives and property, leading to great sorrow and tragedy for families living in the Central region.
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The Law on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control 2013 of Vietnam stipulates basic measures to respond to storms, tropical low pressures, heavy rain, floods, flashfloods, inundation, water rise, landslides or land subsidence due to floods or water currents, specifically as follows:
- Evacuating people out of dangerous areas or unsafe places; focusing on implementing measures to assure safety for people, especially vulnerable groups in emergencies caused by natural disasters;
- Moving ships, boats and aquaculture facilities at sea, in coastal areas or on rivers out of dangerous areas; tallying and guiding ships and boats to anchor, or taking other measures to assure safety;
- Taking measures to assure safety for houses, working offices, hospitals, schools, warehouses, works and economic, security and defense facilities;
- Proactively taking measures to protect production;
- Checking, detecting and handling incidents at natural disaster prevention and control works and key socio-economic and security and defense works;
- Supervising, guiding and proactively restricting or banning people and vehicles from entering dangerous areas on rivers or the sea, deeply inundated areas and roads, areas prone to landslides due to floods or water currents and other dangerous areas;
- Ensuring transport and communication to meet the requirements of directing and commanding response to natural disasters;
- Conducting search and rescue, providing First Aid to injured people, and supplying food, curative medicines, drinking water and other essentials for isolated areas, seriously inundated areas and evacuation places;
- Assuring security, social order and safety and protecting properties of the State and people in natural disaster-hit areas;
- Urgently mobilizing and complying with decisions on direction and urgent mobilization of manpower, supplies, means, equipment and essentials for timely response to natural disasters.
View more details at the Law on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control 2013 of Vietnam, effective from May 01, 2014.
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