Ho Chi Minh City proactively responds to natural disasters during the rainy and stormy season

Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Van Duoc directed relevant units to proactively respond to and prevent natural disasters, ensuring safety for people and state assets.

Illustrative photo (taken by QUOC HUNG)

On the afternoon of June 12, the Office of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee announced that Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Bui Xuan Cuong signed Document No. 4226/UBND-KT conveying the direction of Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Van Duoc on proactively responding to and preventing natural disasters, ensuring safety for people and state assets.

Accordingly, the Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee requested departments, branches and localities to coordinate and synchronously deploy natural disaster prevention plans, including response plans when storms make direct landfall, flood prevention due to heavy rain, high tides, flood discharge, as well as measures to ensure safety for boat operations on rivers and seas. At the same time, strengthen propaganda, inspection, and reinforcement of houses, public works, and trees to minimize damage during the rainy and stormy season.

The Departments of Agriculture and Environment, Education and Training, and Construction have all been directed to develop specific plans. In particular, the Department of Construction will review and treat trees along roadsides and in parks to ensure they do not pose a danger during storms. The Department of Education and Training will coordinate to inspect school safety to ensure the safety of students and teachers.

The Management Board of Export Processing and Industrial Zones and the City Electricity Corporation have prepared a plan to ensure continuous and safe power supply.

Police, border guards, youth volunteers and other functional forces are always ready with manpower and means to promptly support rescue when an incident occurs.

Quickly handle incidents and overcome the consequences of natural disasters. Photo: QUOC HUNG

Localities are required to mobilize forces, materials and means to quickly handle incidents and overcome the consequences of natural disasters, while at the same time doing a good job of statistics, assessing damage, and proposing solutions to restore production and people's lives.

The Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee requested relevant units to be proactive, timely, not negligent or subjective in natural disaster prevention work, ensuring the safety of people's lives and property above all.

At the same time, call on people and businesses to raise awareness and prepare carefully to join hands to safely overcome the storm season.

QUOC HUNG

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/tphcm-chu-dong-ung-pho-thien-tai-mua-mua-bao-post799203.html