Urgently assess damage and quickly overcome the consequences of storms and floods in the Central region

Telegrams sent to the Secretaries and Chairmen of the People's Committees of the provinces and cities: Ha Tinh, Quang Tri, Hue, Da Nang , Quang Ngai, Gia Lai, Dak Lak and Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Government agencies; Office of the National Civil Defense Steering Committee.

Hue City Border Guards and local government forces clean up Phan Chu Trinh Street, Thuan Hoa Ward, Hue City. (Photo: Government Newspaper)

The telegram stated: in late October and early November, localities from Ha Tinh to Dak Lak were continuously hit by natural disasters, storms, floods, especially the historic prolonged floods in Hue and Da Nang after storm No. 12 and storm No. 13 with strong winds "flood on flood, storm on storm" caused heavy damage to people, houses, schools, essential infrastructure, production and business, especially aquaculture, greatly affecting the livelihoods, income and life of the people.

General Secretary To Lam, Standing member of the Secretariat and Government leaders, on behalf of the Party and State leaders, directly visited, encouraged and shared the difficulties, losses and hardships of people in areas affected by natural disasters and floods. The Government and the Prime Minister promptly allocated national reserves and budget reserves to support localities in overcoming natural disasters and floods.

The entire political system, many businesses and philanthropists have promoted the tradition of mutual love, national sentiment, solidarity, and helping people overcome difficulties, gradually stabilizing production and life.

However, the damage caused by the recent natural disaster is huge, requiring a lot of State resources and the cooperation of the whole society to support people in disaster-stricken areas to overcome the consequences, restore production and business, and quickly stabilize their lives. Following the Official Dispatch No. 212/CD-TTg dated November 7, 2025, the Prime Minister requested:

To ensure that people have new houses to celebrate the New Year and Lunar New Year, the Prime Minister requested the Secretaries and Chairmen of the People's Committees of the following provinces and cities: Ha Tinh, Quang Tri, Hue, Da Nang, Quang Ngai, Gia Lai, Dak Lak:

Direct to continue reviewing and fully and accurately counting the need for food support, promptly supporting accommodation, food, and necessities for damaged households that have not been able to restore production and business activities, and are at risk of hunger, paying special attention to households whose houses have collapsed or washed away, policy households, and households in difficulty.

Direct local authorities and competent agencies to urgently review, make complete and accurate statistics, and make a list of households whose houses have collapsed, washed away, or suffered severe damage that cannot be restored, poor households, and policy beneficiaries whose houses have been damaged or had their roofs blown off by storms and floods to focus on immediately implementing State support policies according to current regulations before November 14, 2025.

At the same time, mobilize additional resources from the Fatherland Front, businesses, philanthropists, organizations, individuals and arrange forces to support people in rebuilding their houses, completing before December 31, 2025, ensuring people have new houses to celebrate the New Year and Lunar New Year.

For households that cannot rebuild their houses at their old places and are forced to relocate to ensure safety, local authorities must proactively arrange and allocate land funds in places that ensure safety for the people. The process of reviewing, evaluating, making statistics, making lists and organizing support must ensure publicity, transparency, and prevent profiteering, corruption, negativity and waste.

Review and identify specific support needs for plant varieties, livestock and other necessary materials to restore agricultural production, send to the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment before November 15, 2025 for synthesis, coordinate with competent authorities to urgently handle and immediately issue according to regulations for goods on the list of national reserve goods; for plant varieties, livestock and materials not on the list of national reserve goods, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment coordinates, guides and supports localities to contact seed production facilities and service providers to promptly supplement the supply to support people to restore production immediately after storms and floods, and soon stabilize people's lives.

Focus on immediately restoring essential infrastructure works, first of all schools, medical stations, and hospitals to ensure learning for students and medical examination and treatment services for people immediately after storms and floods; quickly overcome incidents to restore electricity, water, and telecommunication services; repair traffic works, irrigation works, dams, and dykes that have been damaged or lost in natural disasters.

Effectively use the budget reserve and local resources, along with the funding supported by the Prime Minister and the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, to proactively implement support policies and carry out urgent tasks to overcome the consequences of natural disasters in accordance with regulations.

Synthesize a complete and accurate report on the damage situation, storm and flood recovery work in the area, and propose specific support needs from the Central Government (if any) to the Government Office, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Agriculture and Environment and relevant agencies by November 13, 2025 to synthesize and report to the Prime Minister according to regulations.

Minister of Agriculture and Environment: directs and guides localities to synchronously deploy measures to overcome consequences and restore agricultural production after storms and floods.

According to Nhan Dan

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