Ensuring people's lives during temporary shelter to avoid rain and floods

Chairwoman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Hanoi City Nguyen Lan Huong and Vice Chairwoman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Hanoi City Nguyen Thi Kim Dung visited and encouraged people temporarily residing at the Cultural House of Yen Phu Ward, Tay Ho District.

Chairwoman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Hanoi Nguyen Lan Huong presented gifts to encourage people who are temporarily taking shelter from storms and floods at the Yen Phu Ward Cultural House.

Checking the food and accommodation of the people temporarily staying here, Chairwoman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of the City Nguyen Lan Huong visited, encouraged and shared the difficulties of the people, hoping that people would feel secure in temporarily staying away from storms and floods at their new place of residence. At the same time, Chairwoman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of the City hoped that people would continue to promote the spirit of solidarity, coordinate with functional forces to gradually overcome difficulties, and absolutely not return to their old place of residence when the storm and flood have not stabilized to ensure their own safety.

Also at the inspection, Chairwoman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Hanoi Nguyen Lan Huong requested the leaders of Tay Ho district and Yen Phu ward to ensure living conditions, accommodation and activities for people during their temporary stay. Special attention should be paid to the health of the elderly and children, and all necessities should be provided for people to live comfortably.

Leaders of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Tay Ho district and organizations presented support to people temporarily residing at the Yen Phu Ward Cultural House.

Along with that, continue to strictly maintain the on-duty regime, arrange forces to regularly inspect flooded areas, promptly take measures to handle arising situations. Ensure security and safety for both the destination and the departure of people who have to evacuate to avoid floods.

As of 3:00 p.m. on September 11, the entire Tay Ho district had evacuated more than 700 households with about 1,800 people from the flooded area to safe places. Basically, people proactively arranged accommodation at relatives' houses. For the 80 cases without accommodation, the wards proactively arranged them to ward cultural houses, schools, neighborhood activity houses and residential areas.

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