National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue chaired the session, and National Assembly Vice Chairman Nguyen Khac Dinh moderated the session.

Raised VND 230.000 billion for the prevention and control of Covid-19 epidemic

According to the monitoring mission's report, by December 31, 12, the total amount of money raised to directly serve the epidemic prevention and control work and the implementation of social security policies is about 2022 trillion VND. in which from the State budget is more than 230 trillion VND and from grants and aid about 186,4 trillion VND. More than 43,6 trillion VND has been mobilized into the Covid-11,6 Vaccine Fund. Receiving about 19 million doses of Covid-259,3 vaccine, the aid of foreign governments is nearly 19 million doses, worth about 150 trillion VND.

There have been millions of volunteers, especially medical staff, officers and soldiers of the armed forces, directly participating in the fight against the epidemic. People from all walks of life, the business community, the governments of countries and international organizations have directly participated in the prevention and control of the epidemic and contributed their strength, money, kind and many other contributions in various forms. There are many different contributions and supports that cannot be quantified in money.

The management, use, payment and settlement of resources in service of epidemic prevention and control basically comply with the issued guidelines and policies. Aid goods and donations have been promptly distributed to localities and units to serve the prevention and control of the Covid-19 epidemic.

Meeting scene. Photo: QUANG PHUC 

As of December 31, 12, funds for Covid-2022 prevention and control have been used as follows: Supporting people, employees, employers and business households affected by the Covid-19 pandemic- 19 more than 87.000 billion VND; implementation of regimes and policies for frontline forces and other forces participating in the fight against epidemics (Army, Public Security, health care...) is 4.487 billion VND; buying a vaccine against Covid-19 is VND 15.134 billion; supporting research and testing of Covid-19 vaccine is 4,6 billion VND; procurement of test kits is 2.593 billion VND; procurement of medical equipment, supplies, drugs and biological products is VND 5.291 billion; payment for examination, emergency and treatment of Covid-19 patients is 719 billion VND; screening, collection, medical isolation is 89 billion VND; support for new construction, repair and upgrading of Covid-19 treatment facilities, isolation facilities and field hospitals is 403 billion VND; research and application of information technology to prevent and control the Covid-19 epidemic, television and computer programs for children, online teaching is VND 96 billion; Other expenses are about 2.600 billion VND.

The army actively participates in the prevention and control of the Covid-19 epidemic

Speaking at the session, the National Assembly deputies highly appreciated the contributions and sacrifices of the frontline staff to fight the epidemic, especially the team of doctors, medical staff, the Army and the armed forces.

The National Assembly deputies said that the Army is one of the core forces participating in the prevention and control of the Covid-19 epidemic.

From the very beginning, the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense have drastically directed agencies and units to promptly mobilize forces to participate in the prevention and control of the Covid-19 epidemic. Specifically, more than 192.000 turns of qualified officers and soldiers have been mobilized to meet the requirements of epidemic prevention and control practices to support localities to effectively implement solutions to prevent and control the epidemic. contribute to effective disease control. Military forces have participated in epidemic prevention and control with many different tasks, such as medical examination and treatment, vaccination, isolation of citizens on entry, and active participation in ensuring social security. . There are jobs that the army has never done before, but has organized and completed well, very well, such as burial, transporting corpses, ashes of Covid-19 victims...

The army, directly the Border Guard, has also coordinated with local authorities and worked very closely with relevant functional forces to well control the land and sea border lines, prevent thoroughly to prevent illegal entry and exit, to prevent epidemics from entering across the border and bad actors to take advantage of organizing anti-sabotage activities, firmly protecting national border sovereignty, regularly maintaining about 20.000 groups and checkpoints at border gates, trails and openings with about 13.000 turns of Border Guard officers and soldiers directly participating.

The delegates raised many lessons to be learned in disease prevention and control as well as in future disaster response. Specifically, there needs to be synchronization and consistency in mobilizing and mobilizing human resources, including private forces, and assigning tasks to the right people and the right jobs for each individual participating in epidemic prevention and control to promote. good capacity, participate in the most effective epidemic prevention and control. The National Assembly is discussing and the draft Law on Civil Defense will be passed at this session with many regulations related to mobilizing, managing and using resources for civil defense, including regulations on the mobilization, management and use of resources for civil defense. The establishment of a Civil Defense Fund is necessary to be proactive in resources and ready to respond to disasters and incidents.

There should be a fair judgment after the pandemic

In addition to the speech honoring the positive results, the great contributions and sacrifices of the staff, medical staff, the Army, the armed forces and other cadres on the front lines against the epidemic. As well as the quiet contributions of the staff, workers at the back, of the people, businessmen, businesses and international friends, the delegates were also very interested in handling violations and attitudes. our conduct with individuals, agencies and organizations involved in the mobilization, management and use of resources for the prevention and control of the Covid-19 epidemic.

Delegates strongly condemned those who acted for personal gain while the whole nation was buckling against the epidemic, doing things that were "both unreasonable and illegal"; It is recommended that these subjects be dealt with strictly. The National Assembly should promulgate a mechanism for competent agencies to apply the law with a lawful judgment, and at the same time reasonable and reasonable; Stop the spread of the disease of fear of responsibility, withdraw, keep to yourself, push responsibility, avoid responsibility from the health sector to other industries after the pandemic...

The delegates also proposed to have a form of honoring and rewarding both the frontline staff in the fight against the epidemic and the staff of epidemic prevention and control, officials indirectly involved in the prevention and control of the epidemic; thoroughly implement the policy of support and reward for individuals, agencies and organizations participating in the prevention and control of the Covid-19 epidemic; well implement support policies with grassroots medical staff, preventive health workers and have appropriate support policies for staff serving at grassroots and health care levels. preventive…

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