Vietnam: Floods Promote Disease Alert: Thừa Thiên-Huế Province & Hà Tĩnh Province

10/10/2010, 6:30 Sáng

According vfej.vn - 10 hours ago
Rain, flooding not only do great damage to people and property but also cause serious environmental pollution, increase the risk of spreading disease.

During the day from 2 - 6 / 10, due to the effects of tropical regions on the East Coast operations, in the provinces from Ha Tinh to Thua Thien - Hue province has to lead to flooding rains are widespread.

General Department of Environment has set up Missions to the worst affected provinces to grasp the situation and coordinating with local authorities to take measures to promptly resolve, to overcome the environmental pollution and ensure the early stabilization health and lives of people in rain and flood.

The Ministry also asked the Environmental Protection Fund for Vietnam to support funding for the provinces now have rain, floods to purchase chemicals and chemical pump spray disinfectant to prevent disease from these areas are heavily polluted, such as: barn raising, the focus areas of waste, dead carcasses, support equipment and chemicals to treat brackish water, polluted water, solving the urgent need for clean water population.

Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment requested the provincial People's Committee, the flood ravaged city was directed to immediately deploy the work of overcoming environmental pollution, prevent diseases after rain, floods. Accordingly, to carry out the sanitation and treatment of environmental pollution in areas where water has receded, especially in public places, schools, stations, markets ...

These organizations are required to mobilize forces to collect, remove all garbage, tree branches float, outstanding ground urging households to voluntarily implement environmental sanitation, particularly is in the barn area near livestock handling dead carcasses due process.

In addition, Ministers also requested the local monitoring the situation closely diseases, especially diarrhea and dengue fever, avian flu, report to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Ministry of Health case of outbreak of epidemics to have preventive measures in time, and also urge and inspect the factory prompted, provide the basis for population activities should be enhanced to ensure the water supply clean water for living.