Urgently repair educational and medical facilities damaged by natural disasters, ensure learning conditions for students and medical examination and treatment for people.
Telegrams sent to Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities; Ministers of the Ministries of National Defense, Public Security, Education and Training, and Health .
Since the beginning of 2025, many localities across the country have experienced consecutive natural disasters such as thunderstorms, tropical depressions, storms, floods, inundations, flash floods, landslides, earthquakes, causing serious damage to people, property of the people and infrastructure works, in which many educational and medical facilities were damaged (according to the synthesis of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment from localities alone, in the recent storm No. 5, 411 schools had their roofs blown off or were damaged).
Complete school repairs before September 1st to ensure the opening ceremony of the new school year is held on time.
It is now the end of August 2025, the time for the new school year to start. To ensure the opening and learning of students in the new school year 2025-2026 and to serve the medical examination and treatment of the people, the Prime Minister requests:
1. Chairmen of the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities, especially the provinces of Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Tri, Son La, Dien Bien, Phu Tho, Lao Cai, Thai Nguyen (affected by storm No. 5 and heavy rains, flash floods, landslides, and inundation in July and August):
a) Directly direct and organize a thorough review, statistics, and full assessment of the extent of damage to educational and medical facilities in the area, and the remedial work to date.
b) Mobilize the army, police, youth union forces together with the people to focus on cleaning schools, speeding up the repair and restoration of schools and medical facilities damaged by natural disasters, completing before September 1, 2025 , ensuring conditions for organizing the opening ceremony of the new school year on time, ensuring medical examination and treatment for the people. Absolutely do not let students lack schools, classes, teachers, clothes, books, teaching equipment and school supplies, do not let people lack places to examine and treat diseases. Report to the Prime Minister the implementation results no later than September 1, 2025 (and send to the Ministries of Education and Training and Health for general synthesis, report to the Prime Minister no later than September 2, 2025).
b) Proactively use local budget reserves at all levels and mobilize all other legal resources to ensure progress. In cases where the locality's capacity is exceeded, the provincial People's Committee shall propose support needs from the central government to the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Finance for handling according to regulations.
2. Minister of Education and Training:
a) Organize inspection teams and urge localities to carry out school and classroom cleaning work, overcome consequences for educational institutions affected by natural disasters, and promptly support localities and educational institutions to ensure conditions for organizing the opening ceremony of the new school year on time as prescribed.
b) Direct the Directors of the Departments of Education and Training of localities and functional units to grasp the situation of facilities, teaching equipment, textbooks and learning materials, especially for educational institutions in localities affected by storm No. 5 and floods in July and August; proactively handle proposals and support requests from localities according to their authority, synthesize and report to the Prime Minister for direction on handling issues beyond their authority.
c) Proactively mobilize and encourage relevant agencies and units to support educational institutions that have suffered damage to teaching equipment, textbooks and learning materials, ensuring learning conditions for students from the beginning of the new school year, and not allowing students to lack books and learning materials.
Do not interrupt emergency care and treatment of patients
3. Minister of Health:
a) Direct functional units and medical forces at the grassroots level to review and promptly supplement reserve medicines, chemicals, and supplies, ensuring adequate supply of essential medicines for the people; organize environmental sanitation, disease prevention, and food safety and hygiene after floods; and ensure no interruption in emergency care and treatment of patients.
b) Direct the local health sector and functional units to grasp the situation of facilities, equipment, and reserve medicines for medical examination and treatment, especially in localities heavily affected by recent natural disasters and floods; proactively handle proposals and support requests from localities according to their authority, synthesize and report to the Prime Minister for direction on handling issues beyond their authority.
4. The Ministers of the Ministries of National Defense and Public Security direct military and police units stationed in the area to mobilize maximum forces, means, and materials to support localities affected by recent natural disasters in cleaning schools, repairing damaged educational and medical facilities, and overcoming the consequences of natural disasters in general according to local requests.
5. Assign Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long to directly monitor and direct ministries, branches and localities to implement this Official Dispatch; Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha continues to direct the implementation of Official Dispatch No. 148/CD-TTg dated August 26, 2025.
6. The Government Office monitors and urges ministries, branches and localities to seriously implement this Official Dispatch; promptly reports to the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister in charge on urgent and arising issues./.
Source: https://baochinhphu.vn/thu-tuong-chi-dao-khan-truong-khac-phuc-co-so-giao-duc-y-te-bi-thiet-hai-do-thien-tai-102250829145445107.htm
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