The People's Committee of An Giang province has just sent an Official Letter to heads of provincial departments, branches, sectors, and unions; Chairmen of People's Committees of communes, wards, and special zones on focusing on overcoming the consequences of natural disasters, stabilizing people's lives, and ensuring learning conditions for students before the school year.
From the beginning of 2025 until now, natural disasters have occurred abnormally and extremely, seriously affecting the lives and production of people in the province. From the beginning of July 2025 to now, the province has been affected by storms No. 3, No. 4, No. 5 and heavy rain, combined with thunderstorms, whirlwinds, and lightning, killing 3 people, collapsing 33 houses, blowing off the roofs of 222 houses, sinking 5 vehicles at sea, 222.9 hectares of rice flooded, 4 electric poles fell... The estimated value of material damage is about more than 7.6 billion VND.
Currently, it is the peak of the rainy and stormy season, in the context of preparing to enter the new school year, the province requires focusing on leading, directing, and implementing the work of overcoming the consequences of natural disasters with a spirit of urgency and determination to quickly stabilize people's lives.
Ensure that all students can go to school on time for the opening ceremony; patients are treated and treated promptly. In which, focus on timely organization of rescue, relief, and support for people affected by natural disasters.
Focus on repairing damaged essential infrastructure works as quickly as possible, especially traffic works (serving the transportation of relief goods and travel of the People), electricity, telecommunications, domestic water, and healthcare to ensure people's lives and activities.
Reviewing clusters and residential routes to promptly organize evacuation and relocate people from weak, unsafe houses, areas at risk of riverbank, canal and rock and soil landslides on mountains.
Review, inspect, and repair dams, reservoirs, and damaged irrigation works to ensure proactive response to upcoming natural disasters; at the same time, restore agricultural production after storms to stabilize people's lives and income.
The Department of Construction guides and supports communes, wards and special zones to overcome landslides and isolation points, ensuring smooth traffic, especially on key traffic routes and inter-commune roads. Check and ensure the safety of water wharves on the river to ensure safe operation during the rainy and flood season.
Regarding the long-term tasks, the Provincial Military Command, the Department of Agriculture and Environment, relevant departments, branches and communes, wards and special zones need to summarize and evaluate the work of preventing, responding to and overcoming the consequences of natural disasters after each major natural disaster to draw lessons and have effective solutions to reduce damage caused by natural disasters.
Review, plan, and rearrange residential clusters and routes to proactively relocate people from areas at high risk of natural disasters, in order to ensure people's safety.
Inspect and evaluate essential infrastructure works for transportation, irrigation, healthcare, and education to have a plan for construction, repair, and upgrading to ensure long-term safety and stability.
Pay more attention to forest planting, restoration and protection to increase forest coverage, improve quality and promote the multi-purpose value of forests in terms of economy, protection (capable of water retention, soil protection, landslide prevention, ...) and environmental protection.
