On October 3, in Hanoi, Politburo member and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired an online meeting of the Government Standing Committee with localities on overcoming the consequences of storm No. 10 and floods after the storm.
According to the report of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, as of 9:00 a.m. on October 3, there were 66 deaths and missing people, 164 injuries, 349 houses collapsed, over 172,000 damaged houses, 1,486 schools, and 145 medical facilities damaged.
Regarding upcoming work, the Prime Minister requested that housing, food, foodstuffs, and necessities for the people must be taken care of, resolutely not allowing people to live in a "sky-shelved" situation and go hungry; from now until October 5, the people's situation must be stable.
Mobilize resources to quickly rebuild 349 completely damaged and collapsed houses, complete before December 15, 2025, if there is a lack of resources, propose and report to the Government and the Prime Minister; at the same time, complete the repair of damaged and unroofed houses in October.
On this occasion, the Prime Minister commended the Ministry of Public Security for immediately joining Ninh Binh in rebuilding houses that collapsed due to the recent natural disasters.
Focus on immediately repairing educational institutions and medical examination and treatment facilities, to be completed by October 15 at the latest, preparing books, school supplies, medicines, medical equipment; soon restoring essential infrastructure for electricity, water, telecommunications, and irrigation.
The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Finance to coordinate with localities to immediately implement support policies and insurance payments for businesses to restore production and business.
The State Bank of Vietnam directs commercial banks to direct debt suspension policies, debt extension, continued lending, and support credit packages to restore production.
The Prime Minister requested to continue to compile statistics and carefully review the damage of provinces and centrally run cities, propose solutions; continue to call on people, businesses, and socio-political organizations to promote the spirit of solidarity and mutual assistance to overcome difficulties.
In the long term, the Prime Minister directs the need to review standards, regulations, and regulations on the design and operation of works and infrastructure, especially electricity, transportation, telecommunications, water supply and drainage, dykes, and irrigation to meet the requirements of natural disaster prevention in the context of extreme climate change; review planning, and rearrange residents in mountainous areas, low-lying areas, low-lying areas, and riverbanks, including in Hanoi.
Prioritize budget resources to invest in improving the ability to prevent, respond to natural disasters, rescue, especially investment in natural disaster forecasting and monitoring, improving the quality of forecasting, investing in infrastructure and equipment.
Ministries, branches and localities when planning and deciding to invest in projects need to pay close attention to the issue of natural disaster response, climate change adaptation; review, invest, and upgrade the system of irrigation works, dykes, such as Ke Go lake, and sea dykes in Ninh Binh.
Research on sea encroachment plans to both respond to natural disasters and expand development space; propagate and mobilize early and from afar, raising people's awareness.
The Prime Minister also noted the preparation and response work for storm No. 11 that has just appeared in the East Sea.
