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Son La urged to ensure food safety for flood-hit residents

Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Do Ba Ty urged the northern mountainous province of Son La to focus resources on addressing the consequences of floods.
Son La urged to ensure food safety for flood-hit residents ảnh 1National Assembly Vice Chairman Do Ba Ty speaks at the working session with Son La province's officials (Source: VNA)

Son La (VNA) – Vice Chairman of theNational Assembly Do Ba Ty urged the northern mountainous province of Son La tofocus resources on addressing the consequences of floods during a workingsession with local authorities on August 6.

The province needs to mobilise efforts tosupport households who lost family members to the floods, search for missingpeople and ensure food safety for residents, particularly in hardest hit MuongLa district, Ty said.

He also asked the locality to evaluate theimpacts of climate change, improve forecast work, and minimise damages forresidents.

As of August 6, floods took the lives of 10people and left five others missing in Muong La district. 

The disaster damaged 398 houses, washed awayroads, caused blackouts in fivecommunes with 7,600 households and isolated seven communes in the district.

According to the steering board for naturaldisaster prevention, search and rescue of Son La province, locals and soldiershave been mobilised to help move people made homeless in the floods, to saferplaces.

The province has provided financial and food aidfor families with dead, injured or missing members, and evacuated families,worth more than 3.1 billion VND (136,400 USD). 
The Vietnam Red Cross presented 200 gifts to thevictims. So far, Muong La district has received more than 7.5 billion VND(330,000 USD) in aid.-VNA
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