On September 15, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a conference on urgently overcoming the consequences of typhoon Yagi, quickly stabilizing the people's situation, restoring production and business, and promoting growth.
According to the Office of the Government, in his concluding remarks, the Prime Minister conveyed the regards, sharing and condolences of the Politburo, the Secretariat, General Secretary, President To Lam and the leaders of the Party and State to agencies, localities, units and especially the families of those who died, went missing or were injured due to super typhoon No. 3.
The Prime Minister choked up and cried many times when mentioning the devastation, severe consequences, and losses and damages to the people and the country.
"We have tried our best. We have found the best possible solution, we have found what is left in what is lost... But the irreplaceable loss is the lives and spirits of the people, the families whose loved ones died," the Prime Minister was moved.
The Head of Government emphasized that the upcoming goals are to ensure that no one is left without food, clothing, hunger, cold, clean water, shelter, or daily necessities; to effectively overcome the consequences of super typhoon No. 3; and to quickly stabilize the people's spiritual and material situation.
At the same time, restore production and business activities; control inflation well and strive for GDP growth of about 7% for the whole year; maintain political stability, social order and safety and a peaceful, stable, cooperative and developing environment.
The Prime Minister pointed out a group of 6 urgent tasks and solutions to overcome the consequences of the storm, including:
First, search for missing people and treat injured people.
Second, arrange temporary accommodation for people who have lost their homes or have damaged houses, provide food, clean water for people, and treat the sick.
Third, review, inspect, and by all means approach isolated and cut-off areas to support and supply people.
Fourth, focus the entire political system and people's forces on cleaning up the environment and preventing epidemics.
Fifth, do not let power outages, telecommunications outages and essential services occur.
Sixth, immediately repair medical and educational facilities so that children can go to school and sick people can be treated.
Regarding solutions to stabilize the situation for the people, the head of the Government requested to review and count the damage of the people and the State, immediately support the damaged people, and try to stabilize on the spot such as arranging accommodation at village cultural houses, police and military facilities in the area.
Review buried villages, families who lost their homes, organize resettlement in safe places, must be completed by December 31, 2024 at the latest, the requirement is that the new place of residence must be better than the old place, the house must have a hard floor, hard walls, hard roof.
Review, count, and repair classrooms and equipment so that all students can return to school this September. Localities count the damage and propose support for families. Research tuition exemptions and reductions for affected students.
The Prime Minister requested the State Bank and the banking system to study policies on debt extension, deferral, and freeze, credit policies, and zero-interest packages; the Ministry of Finance to study the reduction, extension, and deferral of taxes, fees, and charges.
The Social Policy Bank has a plan to lend to households; the insurance industry promptly pays for damages to businesses and people.
The Prime Minister requested effective use of support money to overcome consequences, fight corruption, waste and profiteering.
