Relief aid extended to storm victims in Quy Nhon, Binh Dinh

Nhan Dan/VNA - Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai requested that central provinces recently hit by typhoon Mirinae, Phu Yen and Binh Dinh, quickly deploy all available forces to search for those still missing and promptly deliver relief aid to those who are still stranded by the flooding.

He was inspecting the two provinces’ implementation of post-storm services on November 4.

The Government leader asked provincial health departments to quickly launch clean-up activities and measures to prevent possible outbreaks of disease which may follow in the aftermath of the flooding.

Mirinae, the 11th storm hitting Vietnam so far this year, has left 103 people dead and missing, 55 injured. It also pulled down 754 houses, unroofed 13,354 houses and left many places in the locality cut off. Around 2,556 hectares of rice and 2,327 hectares of other food crops were damaged. Hundreds of fishponds were inundated and 94 ships and boats sank and overturned.

Phu Yen has asked the Government to provide it with 120,000 boxes of instant noodles and 4,000 tonnes of rice to feed the local people and VND 550 billion to assist the families of storm victims and those seriously affected as well as fix roads, irrigation works and aquaculture farms.

At its request, on the day, military helicopters launched relief aid services over areas that remain isolated by flooding.

Binh Dinh reported the storm had inundated 42,000 houses, destroyed 311 others and damaged more than 3,500 houses. The total economic damage is estimated at VND 887 billion.

The affected province has also asked for the provision of rice, noodles, blankets, water filters, rice seedlings and funds for the reconstruction of houses, as well as the restoration of damaged transport facilities and irrigation networks.