On the afternoon of October 2, in Hanoi, General Secretary To Lam and leaders, cadres, civil servants, and public employees of the Central Party Office participated in donating and supporting people to overcome the consequences of storm No. 10.
In recent days, storm No. 10 (Bualoi) has made landfall directly in our country, causing great damage to people and property in many provinces and cities.
With the fine tradition of the Vietnamese people, with the heart of "mutual love and support"; "love others as you love yourself"; giving gifts and clothes in times of trouble, the leaders of the Office, the Party Committee of the Central Party Office launched a campaign for all cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers of the Central Party Office to donate at least 1 day's salary to help people soon overcome difficulties and stabilize their lives.
Speaking at the donation event, General Secretary To Lam sent his most sincere condolences to the families of the victims and shared the pain, loss, and difficulties of people in areas affected by recent natural disasters, storms, and floods.
To overcome the consequences of natural disasters, floods, and help people in affected areas quickly stabilize their lives, the General Secretary emphasized that provinces and cities mobilize military forces, police, youth and means to promptly coordinate and support the search and implementation of search and support for people to repair houses with unroofed roofs and damaged by storms and floods; arrange temporary accommodation, support food, drinking water, and necessities for households who have lost their homes, and resolutely prevent any people from being hungry, cold, homeless, or lacking clothes.
The General Secretary suggested that educational and medical facilities that have suffered damage due to storms and floods should be immediately repaired; timely support affected subjects, do not let students lack schools, classes, books, do not let people have no place to go to see a doctor when sick; mobilize forces to urgently overcome the consequences of storms and floods, especially ensuring accommodation, restoring essential activities of transportation, electricity, water, telecommunications, healthcare, education, ... especially in isolated areas.
The General Secretary noted that localities need to proactively respond by closely monitoring natural disaster developments, notifying and warning people, developing prevention and control plans according to the "four on-site" motto (on-site command; on-site forces; on-site means and materials; on-site logistics).
As of 3:00 p.m. today (October 2), 40 people have died, 21 people are missing, 150 people are injured, 185 houses have collapsed, more than 167,000 houses have been damaged, roofs have been blown off; more than 58,800 houses have been flooded, 1,435 schools have been affected and damaged; nearly 52,500 hectares of rice and crops have been flooded and damaged, hundreds of thousands of livestock and poultry have died and been swept away; 15,302 hectares of seafood have been damaged; 21,939 m of parallel embankments and coastal areas have been eroded; 8,485 electric poles have broken; 79,841 trees have fallen; many roads have been seriously blocked and many other damages have not been fully recorded.
According to preliminary statistics in 8 localities that suffered great damage, the total economic damage is about 12,360 billion VND (Ha Tinh: 6,000 billion VND, Lao Cai: 2,750 billion VND, Nghe An: 1,627 billion VND, Cao Bang: 750 billion VND, Quang Tri: 550 billion VND, Son La: 528 billion VND, Phu Tho: 85 billion VND, Hai Phong: 16 billion VND).
