Synchronously deploy measures to prevent and combat hunger, cold, and diseases for crops and livestock.

(Haiphong.gov.vn) – Implementing the Prime Minister's direction in Official Dispatch No. 1404/CD-TTg on proactively preventing and combating prolonged cold spells. The Chairman of the City People's Committee has just directed at Document No. 3269/UBND-TL requires Departments, branches and localities to absolutely not be subjective or negligent in the work of preventing and fighting severe cold .

Accordingly, the organization closely monitors weather developments, proactively directs and deploys measures to respond to severe cold to protect people's health and livelihoods, minimize damage to agricultural production, and ensure essential food sources to serve market demand at the end of the year and during the Lunar New Year.

Proactively propagate, mobilize, guide and disseminate to people methods and skills to implement safe and effective cold-fighting measures, ensuring people's health and safety; prevent and fight fires and explosions when heating; pay special attention to cold-fighting and other extreme weather events for the elderly, people with underlying diseases, children and the disadvantaged... Based on the specific weather situation in the locality, proactively let students take time off from school according to regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training.

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is assigned to focus on directing and synchronously implementing measures to prevent and combat hunger, cold, and diseases in crops, livestock, and aquatic products to minimize damage to agricultural production; regularly monitor and update the situation of natural disasters.

Assign the Department of Health to direct the grassroots medical force to ensure the necessary medicine stock, ready to organize medical examination and treatment for people when a situation occurs.

The Department of Information and Communications shall preside over and take measures to propagate and disseminate on mass media methods and skills to prevent and combat cold for people, livestock, poultry, pets, agricultural production, etc.

The People's Committees of districts mobilize local resources and other legal funding sources to promptly serve the work of preventing and fighting hunger, cold, and epidemics for livestock, aquatic products, and crops; promptly support materials and funding for poor households, ethnic minority households, and policy families to reinforce and cover barns, seed ponds, seedling gardens, especially spring seedlings, and purchase feed for livestock to graze, fertilizers, and biological products to increase cold resistance for crops. Propaganda , guidance, inspection, and urging the work of preventing and fighting cold for people , crops, and livestock, etc. /.

Cam Nhung

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