Key tasks and solutions for protecting the lives, safety, and health of the people in Vietnam in 2024

Key tasks and solutions for protecting the lives, safety, and health of the people in Vietnam in 2024

As per Resolution 143/ND-CP dated September 17, 2024, in order to urgently overcome the consequences of No. 3 Typhoon (Yagi), swiftly stabilize the people's situation, promote the restoration of production and business, actively boost economic growth, effectively control inflation, and continue striving for an annual economic growth target of 6.8-7% in 2024, the focus will be on the following key tasks and solutions for protecting lives, safety, and health of the people:

- The Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam, and local authorities shall mobilize maximum forces to search for missing persons; reinforce forces and means to patrol, relocate, and evacuate people from high-risk areas, and transport relief goods to the people.

- The Ministry of Health shall cooperate with ministries, central authorities, and local authorities to mobilize and allocate sufficient medical forces, ensure adequate medicines and medical supplies to treat the injured and sick; effectively prevent and control epidemics, manage environmental sanitation, ensure water purification, guarantee food safety, and absolutely prevent outbreaks of diseases after floods, especially in areas affected by flash floods, landslides.

- The Ministry of Finance and local authorities in Vietnam:

+ Ensure state budget funds to implement support policies directly for the burial of deceased persons, families of the dead, missing, or hospitalized injured due to No. 3 Typhoon; resolve and promptly disburse policies for the relatives of the deceased.

+ Utilize state budget reserves and other lawful sources to urgently relocate households and residential points at high landslide risk areas, to be completed before September 30, 2024.

+ The Ministry of Finance of Vietnam, relevant ministries, and agencies shall promptly allocate food, equipment, supplies, chemicals for environmental cleaning, disinfection, and water treatment, as well as disease prevention medicines from national reserves to support localities.

+ Local authorities in Vietnam shall cooperate with the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Public Security to review, inspect, and find ways to access isolated areas to provide emergency assistance; focus on arranging temporary shelters for people who lost their homes, and provide food, clean water, and supplies to the people.

More details can be found in Resolution 143/ND-CP issued on September 17, 2024.

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