Emergency nutrition response in natural disasters

Leaders of the Department of Dyke Management and Natural Disaster Prevention and Control spoke at the workshop. Photo: ANH NGOC

Leaders of the Department of Dyke Management and Disaster Prevention, representatives of the Department of Disease Prevention (National Institute of Nutrition, Ministry of Health ), leaders of the Department of Agriculture and Environment, and representatives of Acecook Vietnam Joint Stock Company attended.

The workshop was also attended by nearly 50 officials, civil servants and public employees from the Provincial Center for Disease Control, the Red Cross (provincial and district levels), the Women's Union (provincial and district levels), the Provincial Association of the Elderly and the District Health Center.

During April 28 and 29, the workshop focused on sharing disaster prevention and control work in the Central Coast region; nutrition intervention policies and plans for some major types of natural disasters as well as solutions to ensure nutrition when natural disasters cause prolonged isolation in the community.

According to the Department of Dyke Management and Disaster Prevention, climate change and global warming have made natural disasters in the world increasingly complicated with an increasing trend in both frequency and intensity. In the past 5 years, the world has witnessed catastrophic natural disasters such as earthquakes in Turkey, floods in China, forest fires in the United States, and unusual rains and floods in Spain.

Most recently, on March 28, 2025, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake occurred in Sagaing region (Myanmar), causing serious damage to people and property...

Representative of the Department of Dyke Management and Natural Disaster Prevention and Control presented a paper on the characteristics of natural disasters in the Central Coast region and response work. Photo: ANH NGOC

Vietnam is one of the countries affected by many types of extreme natural disasters. Over the past 20 years, natural disasters have caused an average of over 300 deaths and missing people each year, with economic losses of 1-1.5% of GDP. Nutritional response in disaster prevention and control is a relatively new but very important issue that needs attention in the coming period. This activity is also one of the contents of the National Nutrition Strategy for the period 2021-2030 and vision to 2045, while implementing the project to raise public awareness and community-based disaster risk management by 2030 approved by the Prime Minister.

At this workshop, there were 8 presentations including: Characteristics of natural disasters in the Central Coast region and response work; mechanisms and policies on nutrition and improving nutritional response capacity in emergency situations; guidelines on nutrition in disaster prevention and control; the emergency response system in Vietnam and sharing experiences from emergency responses; assessment in emergency situations and disaster response; interventions in emergency nutrition and disaster response; guidelines for planning for nutrition prevention, control and response in emergency situations...

Source: https://baophuyen.vn/xa-hoi/202504/ung-pho-dinh-duong-khan-cap-trong-thien-tai-7bc36b1/