The dispatch stated: In recent days, due to the influence of strong cold air, Nghe An has experienced severe cold, with some mountainous areas having temperatures lower than 9 degrees Celsius, affecting people's health, livestock and agricultural production.
According to the forecast of the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, severe cold may continue in the coming days; low temperatures, drizzle, high humidity and scarce food sources will greatly affect people's lives, the resistance and growth of crops and livestock.
To proactively respond to severe cold, protect people's health, minimize damage to agricultural production, protect people's health and livelihoods, ensure essential food sources to serve market demand at the end of the year and Lunar New Year, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Head of the Provincial Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention, Search and Rescue and Civil Defense requested the Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention, Search and Rescue and Civil Defense; Directors of departments; Heads of departments, branches, and organizations; Chairmen of People's Committees of districts, cities, and towns to closely monitor weather developments, proactively direct and deploy measures to respond to severe cold.
Chairmen of People's Committees of districts, cities and towns: Proactively propagate and guide people to implement measures to prevent cold, ensure health and safety (do not use coal stoves to heat in closed rooms to avoid unfortunate incidents, causing human damage); prevent fires and explosions when heating; pay special attention to preventing cold and other extreme weather events for the elderly, children and the disadvantaged... Based on the specific weather situation in the locality, proactively let students take time off from school according to regulations.
Focus on directing and synchronously implementing measures to prevent and combat hunger, cold, and epidemics for crops, livestock, and aquatic products to minimize damage to agricultural production. Absolutely do not be subjective or negligent; promptly organize working groups to the grassroots, especially in highland communes, to directly propagate, guide, inspect, and urge the work of preventing and combating cold for people, crops, and livestock; propagate, mobilize, and disseminate to the people safe and effective methods and skills to prevent and combat cold, especially for the elderly, people with underlying diseases, children, etc.
Households that graze cattle in the forest must move their livestock to pens or sheltered places with adequate conditions to ensure that the cattle do not get cold; do not graze or let buffaloes and cows work when there is severe cold; apply a late-grazing and early-returning regime. Encourage people to proactively store and preserve roughage and concentrated feed for livestock, ensuring enough feed for livestock during the winter-spring crop.
At the same time, proactively arrange local budgets and local resources to promptly serve the work of preventing and fighting hunger, cold, and epidemics for livestock, aquatic products, and crops; promptly support materials and funds for poor households, ethnic minority households, and policy families to reinforce and cover barns, seed ponds, seedling gardens, especially spring seedlings, and purchase concentrated feed for grazing livestock, fertilizers, and biological products to increase cold resistance for crops.
The Chairmen of the People's Committees of districts, cities and towns are responsible to the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee if there are epidemics, human losses and large numbers of crop and livestock deaths due to subjectivity, negligence, and failure to fully and promptly implement measures to prevent and combat hunger and cold (especially severe cold).
The Department of Education and Training has instructions for educational and training institutions on students' absence from school during severe cold and other unusual events due to cold.
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development focuses on directing and closely monitoring weather developments, guiding localities to implement cold and disease prevention and control for livestock, poultry, aquatic products and crops; developing and guiding the Winter-Spring crop production plan, and crop structure suitable to weather conditions.
The Department of Health coordinates with media agencies to disseminate knowledge, guide and advise people to take effective measures to prevent and combat the cold, ensure health safety, avoid the risk of gas poisoning when burning coal and firewood for heating in closed rooms; direct grassroots medical forces to ensure necessary medicine, organize medical examination and treatment for people.
The North Central Region Hydrometeorological Station closely monitors, forecasts, warns, and provides timely information on weather conditions, severe cold, and frost so that authorities and media agencies can convey to the people and proactively deploy effective response measures to severe cold.
Units: Provincial Radio and Television Station, Nghe An Newspaper, press agencies need to spend reasonable time and time frames, have measures to propagate and disseminate on mass media about methods and skills to prevent and fight cold for people and livestock, poultry, pets, agricultural production, etc.
Directors of Departments and Heads of relevant sectors, according to their assigned State management functions, shall proactively direct and coordinate with localities to promptly and effectively respond to severe cold.
The Provincial Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention, Search and Rescue and Civil Defense organizes a duty to closely monitor the natural disaster situation, proactively directs, inspects and urges localities to deploy the work of preventing, combating, overcoming consequences, and limiting damage caused by natural disasters; promptly reports and proposes to competent authorities to direct and handle issues beyond their authority.
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