The information was released at a conference reviewing aid programmes for the flood-hit localities over the past year held by the Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRC) on December 10.

At the conference reviewing aid programmes for the flood-hit localities over the past year.

Speaking at the event, Vice President of the VRC Central Committee Nguyen Hai Anh said with great support from organisations, businesses and individuals in Vietnam and overseas, ten programmes for emergency aid and recovery have been implemented in the 12 localities, with funding totalling 217 billion VND. Activities under these programmes have basically completed, he added.

The 12 central provinces and cities benefited were Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Thua Thien – Hue, Da Nang, Khanh Hoa, Binh Dinh, and Phu Yen.

The assistance focused on offering food, necessities, money, shelters, clean water, health services, livelihoods support, safe schools, and disasters risk management.

According to a Government report to the National Assembly on November 2 last year, since late September 2020, 235 people in the central region had been listed as dead or missing from storms and floods, which had also caused estimated economic losses of about 17 trillion VND.

Nearly 1,100 fetal heart monitors handed over to flood-hit areas

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Vietnam held a ceremony on April 2 to hand over additional medical equipment to Vietnam to ensure the continuous delivery of quality sexual and reproductive health services in provinces affected by floods and landslides.

UN agency provides another $800,000 for women, girls in flooded central Vietnam

The United Nations Population Fund in Vietnam will provide an additional $800,000 to support women and girls affected by flooding in eight central provinces and cities.

Aid continues to be sent to flood victims in central region

The Hanoi Party Committee, Hanoi People’s Committee and the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee (Hanoi chapter) provided VND900 million to local households whose houses were damaged in the recent floods in Phu Ninh district, Quang Nam province.

Aid provided to disadvantaged and flood-hit people

Politburo member and Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilisation Truong Thi Mai visited and presented gifts to teachers and students in difficult circumstances in Tu Mo Rong District, Kon Tum Province, on December 3.

Five killed as heavy rains, flooding ravage central Vietnam

At least five died as flooding triggered by prolonged heavy rains over the past days hit central provinces and the Central Highlands.

Source: NDO/VNA