According to the directive, the MND required all agencies and units to strictly implement the Government’s and the MND’s instructions on flood response and natural disaster recovery. Units must maintain strict duty readiness, closely monitor flood, landslide, and flash flood developments, and mobilize maximum personnel and means to respond promptly to all possible situations. They were also tasked with ensuring the safety of warehouses and barracks, assisting local authorities and people in evacuating residents from dangerous areas to safe locations, preventing loss of life, and supporting disaster recovery, environmental sanitation, and disease prevention efforts while ensuring safety for the troops on duty.
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Troops of Division 315 (Military Region 5) help medical establishments overcome the flood consequences. |
The General Department of Political Affairs was assigned to direct military press agencies to promptly report on the military’s assistance to flood victims and search and rescue operations, as well as to visit and support families of those killed, missing, or injured.
The General Department of Logistics and Technical Services, General Department of Defense Industry, and General Department II were tasked with ensuring the safety of warehouses, factories, weapons, and equipment; maintaining logistics and technical support for disaster response; providing food and relief supplies; and delivering rescue materials and equipment in time. Military medical units were directed to provide free treatment for the injured, guide people on water sanitation and disease prevention, and prevent post-flood epidemics.
The MND also directed Military Regions 4 and 5 to coordinate with local authorities to direct and implement all recovery measures with the highest urgency, determination, and efficiency, helping people quickly stabilize their lives. Troops and equipment must be sent to reach all isolated and flooded areas, carry out search and rescue operations, deliver food, drinking water, medicine, and essentials, and transport the injured and sick to hospitals.
* On October 31, the military deployed 32,314 officers, soldiers, militia members, and other forces, along with 839 vehicles, to assist people in Ha Tinh, Quang Tri, Quang Ngai, and Thua Thien Hue provinces, and Da Nang city. Troops helped evacuate 10,243 households (31,437 people) from deep-flooded, high-risk areas to safety and back home afterward. The MND also coordinated with the Ministry of Finance to advise the Government on issuing national reserve supplies to Hue City upon the city’s request.
* At 4:00 a.m. the same day, two fishing ships (QB 93358 TS and QB 93498 TS) were swept away after their anchor lines broke while moored on the Roon River (Quang Tri province). Upon receiving the distress call, the border guard force of Quang Tri province dispatched seven officers and soldiers, who coordinated with local authorities to locate the ships. By 9:11 a.m., the search and rescue force successfully found and towed both distressed ships safely to shore.
Translated by Song Anh