On the afternoon of October 30, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha inspected the landslide repair work on Provincial Road 623, Ra Nhua Village, Son Tay Commune, which is cutting off traffic, making it difficult for 6,000 people to travel.
Accompanying him were Mr. Ho Van Nien - Secretary of the Quang Ngai Provincial Party Committee; Mr. Nguyen Hoang Giang - Chairman of the People's Committee of Quang Ngai province...
At the inspection at km 15+900 on Provincial Road 623 in Son Tay Commune, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha requested the authorities to focus on human resources and means to handle the amount of rock and soil spilled onto the road, and strive to clear the route tomorrow.
At the landslide site where many large rocks collapsed onto the road, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha requested the engineering force to use mines to break the road.
The Deputy Prime Minister also requested functional forces to support necessities for people who were cut off due to landslides.
In Quang Ngai, floods have killed 4 people, caused more than 120 serious landslides on National Highways 14C, 24B, 24C, 40B and 10 provincial roads, with the amount of landslides reaching nearly 12,000 m3.
The whole province had more than 5,200 houses flooded; 1 house completely collapsed, and 27 others were severely damaged. Prolonged heavy rain has caused traffic disruption in many midland and mountainous areas; localities have evacuated 977 households/3,662 people in areas at high risk of landslides, mountains, and flash floods to safe places.
Recently, the Prime Minister decided to support the province with 100 billion VND to initially overcome the damage caused by natural disasters. The Provincial People's Committee is directing the Department of Finance, the Department of Agriculture and Environment to coordinate with localities and units to advise the Provincial People's Committee to allocate to localities and units to overcome the damage.
However, due to natural disasters occurring in a large area (affecting the whole province), the need for funding to overcome them is very large while the province's resources are limited.
Therefore, in order to promptly overcome the damage caused by the recent floods and rains to stabilize people's production lives, the Provincial People's Committee proposed that the Deputy Prime Minister consider continuing to support the province: Emergency support for food, provisions, necessities: 5,000 tons of rice, 10,000 boxes of instant noodles, 2 tons of dry food.
Regarding health: Support 100 medical supplements, 5,000kg of Chloramine B powder, 50,000 Aquatabs, to organize medical examinations for people; disinfect and disinfect, treat environmental pollution in flooded areas, prevent epidemics for people.
In addition, supporting people (housing, agricultural production, siltation, irrigation), ensuring traffic in step 1, fixing irrigation works, clean water for daily use that has landslides, washed away, broken canals, water pipes, overcoming landslides, mountains... to ensure production and daily life service as soon as possible for people: 200 billion VND.
Support for reconstruction after natural disasters to overcome landslides and damage to traffic works in step 2 and to overcome irrigation works, infrastructure and landslides on river banks, streams, and mountain landslides: 700 billion VND.
