National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man visits and encourages people in flood-hit areas of Thai Nguyen province

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man wades through water to visit flooded people in Nga My commune. Photo: Thai Nguyen Newspaper.

Also attending were members of the Party Central Committee: Ms. Nguyen Thi Thu Ha, Vice President - General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front; Mr. Nguyen Dac Vinh, Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee for Culture and Education ; Ms. Nguyen Thanh Hai, Head of the National Assembly Delegation Affairs Committee, and Deputy Head of the Central Organizing Committee.

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man waded into flooded houses and visited families living with floodwaters. He expressed his sympathy for the difficulties and property losses of the people, hoping that they would soon overcome them and stabilize their lives.

The Chairman also requested the Party Committee, local authorities, and functional forces of Phu Binh district and Thai Nguyen province to continue to focus on directing and promptly implementing measures to overcome the consequences of natural disasters; support people, promptly supply enough food, necessities, and clean water to flooded areas, and soon stabilize life...

The National Assembly Chairman presented 200 gifts to people affected by floods. Photo: Thai Nguyen Newspaper.

The Central working delegation also worked with Thai Nguyen province on directing the work of overcoming the consequences of storm No. 3. On behalf of the locality, Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Secretary Trinh Viet Hung quickly reported on the situation of storm prevention and control and overcoming the consequences of natural disasters in the province in recent days.

The storm also caused an estimated loss of over 600 billion VND, nearly 26,000 households had to be evacuated; over 61 schools were flooded and had their roofs blown off; over 9,000 hectares of rice and crops were damaged and felled; many livestock farms, fish ponds and people's property were flooded and damaged; many landslides affected traffic, as well as affected people's houses... Currently, the flooding is still complicated, localities are continuing to review, count and assess the damage.

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man works with leaders of Thai Nguyen province. Photo: Thai Nguyen Newspaper.

All levels and sectors in Thai Nguyen province have mobilized forces and means to support the evacuation of flooded households in isolated areas to safe places; implemented plans to protect dykes against floods, overcome landslides affecting traffic, restore electricity, water, telecommunications systems, medical facilities, schools; operated and regulated reservoirs to ensure safety; organized environmental sanitation forces, disease prevention, etc.

Thai Nguyen province has also mobilized over 8,000 officers, soldiers and local shock forces along with necessary means, equipment and materials to reinforce and ensure the flood resistance of the dikes. Storm No. 3 passed without affecting production and business activities in industrial parks and industrial clusters in the province.

On behalf of the Central Relief Committee, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man presented 30 billion VND to Thai Nguyen province to support overcoming the consequences of storm No. 3.

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man highly appreciated the proactive spirit of Thai Nguyen province in the face of the unusual developments of storm No. 3 and the floods after the storm. The National Assembly Chairman requested Thai Nguyen province to continue closely monitoring the developments of floods to proactively respond when the water recedes and to have a plan to immediately repair deeply flooded areas, to prevent epidemics from occurring after the floods; to repair infrastructure damage as soon as possible and organize visits and encouragement to the families of the victims; Thai Nguyen province leaders directed the Education and Training sector and localities to repair flooded schools, to soon stabilize teaching and learning, and to prevent children from being unable to go to school.

The National Assembly Chairman emphasized that at this time, it is necessary to promote the spirit of mutual love and support to overcome the consequences of floods; reminding that the use of support funds must be public and transparent, ensuring that they reach the people soon.

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