The Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control held this morning an urgent meeting to carry out searching and rescue missions at Rao Trang 3 hydropower plant landslide in Thua Thien- Hue Province as well as verify, approach the landslide site at the Defense Economics Division 337 under the Military Region 4 of the Vietnam People's Army.
The Standing Office of the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control informed that floodwater forced about 8,024 households with 26,407 people in the provinces from Quang Binh to Quang Nam to evacuate because torrential rains are forecast to continue in the coming days.
According to reports, two people were dead and missing and 110 others were injured in the storm Noul. Worse, the storm blew the roofs off 22,000 houses in the central region causing massive damage.
The National Traffic Safety Committee reported that there had been 29 road accidents with 16 deaths and 23 injured people in the whole country on September 2.
Dengue cases have been soaring from June to date with more outbreaks in localities; accordingly, Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien urged local authorities to have preventative measures against dengue outbreaks and cut deaths at a meeting in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday.
Cardiovascular diseases are also responsible for 30 percent of deaths in Vietnam, said Deputy Head of the Department of Preventive Medicine Truong Dinh Bac at a yesterday meeting in Hanoi held by Vietnamese Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization.
A tragic traffic accident happened at around 12:30pm yesterday on DT 741 Street (the part through Ben Cat Town of the southern province of Binh Duong), killing 3 people at once and seriously injuring one.
The Department of Health in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday afternoon announced in three-day national holidays, medical clinics in the city admitted 7,961 emergency cases including 26 deaths.
