Vice-Senior General Soe Win stressed that healthcare teams should be formed to despatch them to the villages which still face difficulties, and meeting discussions must be disseminated to remaining regions and states.
Chairman of the
National Disaster Management Committee Vice-Chairman of the State
Administration Council Deputy Prime Minister Vice-Senior General Soe Win
yesterday morning said so at the coordination meeting of the management
committee to address damage in flash flooding in Nay Pyi Taw Council Area.
Speaking on the
occasion, the Vice-Senior General noted that flash floods, inundation and heavy
rains in Nay Pyi Taw Council Area, including Pyinmana, Tatkon and Lewe
townships, are based on impacts of global climate change.
He stressed the
need to overcome the challenges of natural disasters by applying experiences
obtained in the outbreak of cyclonic storms Mocha in 2023 and Nargis in 2008.
Natural Disaster Management Committees not only in Nay Pyi Taw Council Area but
also in Shan, Kayin and Mon States and Magway, Mandalay, Taninthayi and Bago
Regions affected by Typhoon Yagi are conducting rescue and relief measures for
the people in flooding and landslides.
He underlined
that disaster management committees, which are open around the clock, have to
direct well-wishers to relevant relief camps for flood victims in order to make
donations systematically.
The Vice-Senior
General urged the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation to submit
daily reports to the State Administration Council on the inflow of water to
residences, as well as serious and non-serious occurrences.
He pointed out
that officials must inspect the endurances of 12 dams and 12 reservoirs in Nay
Pyi Taw Council Area daily to inform people from relief camps about the
situations of these facilities.
He highlighted
that each relief camp systematically keeps the management fund and five basic
foodstuffs provided by Nay Pyi Taw Council to supply food to people from the
camps daily.
He continued
that as some villages are facing one-two feet deep flood, it is necessary to
distribute drinking water as well as life straws, bleaching powder and
water-purified tablets to residents.
The Vice-Senior
General underscored that officials from hospitals, station hospitals, rural
dispensaries and nurses from villages have to inform nearby treatment centres
about the health conditions of people not to cause diarrhoea and mosquito- and
fly-borne diseases and general infectious diseases.
He explained
that healthcare teams should be formed to despatch them to the villages which
still face difficulties, and meeting discussions must be disseminated to
remaining regions and states and attended to the needs.
Nay Pyi Taw
Council Chairman U Than Tun Oo and officials reported on flash floods in
Tatkon, Pobbathiri, Zeyathiri, Pyinmana and Lewe townships starting from the
morning of 11 September, overflow of Hsinthay Creek, conducting rescue and
relief measures in difficulties in flooded water affected by Nawin, Mone and
Kintha creeks, clearing of debris starting from 12 September, 42 deaths in
incidents, floating of 33 houses, start of cleaning 3,819 flooded buildings,
the progress of rescue, relief and rehabilitation, the opening of 82 relief
camps to accommodate some 25,000 people.
The meeting was
also attended by Union Ministers Lt-Gen Yar Pyae, U Myo Thant, Dr Thet Khaing
Win, Dr Soe Win, and U Min Naung and officials.
After the
meeting, the Vice-Senior General inspected the 190-foot-long and 28-foot-wide
Nawin Creek Bridge, damaged by erosion on the Yangon-Mandalay highway and the
construction of a Bailey bridge by officials and staff of the Department of
Bridges.
The
100-foot-long and 24-foot-wide Bailey with a 24-foot-wide motorway can
withstand 40 tonnes of load. Its construction started on 11 September, and it
can be used on 16 September.
The Vice-Senior
General also inspected damage caused by flooding in residential wards and
villages in the Nay Pyi Taw Council Area.
In the meeting
with some 600 flood victims from Hsinthay, Pawsankhaw, Peinnabin, Zeebyupin and
Hnandaw villages of Pyinmana Township at the Basic Education High School in
Natthaye Village, the Vice-Senior General explained arrangements for food and
accommodation, and rehabilitation and provided cash assistance and foodstuffs.
He also met some
500 flood-stricken people from flood-ravaged villages at Chanmyae Yeiktha
Monastery in Tatkon Township and explained plans to provide aid for
rehabilitation.
Union ministers
who accompanied the Vice-Senior General discussed that as flooded water ebbed,
basic foodstuffs and, purified drinking water and healthcare services must be
provided for those who return to their native areas, adding people should not
be fearful for misinformation about dams. They also presented cash assistance
and food to the victims.
The Vice-Senior
General also conversed with more than 1,000 flood victims at Tatkon BEHS No 1
and inspected the opening of a temporary clinic and stockpiling foodstuffs,
clothes and relief supplies.
At flood-hit
Tatkon Township Hospital (100-bed), the Vice-Senior General inspected repair
works and comforted the patients.
The Vice-Senior
General inspected the construction of a bailey bridge and approach roads on
both sides by the Directorate of Military Engineers of the Office of the
Commander-in-Chief (Army) for Nawin Creek Bridge (Thayaaye) destroyed by
erosion and left instructions on the long-term existence of the Bailey Bridge
with resilience of natural disaster. The Bailey Bridge is scheduled to be
finished in the last week of September.
He also viewed
round the 360 feet long and 55 feet wide Thaikchaung Bridge, crossing Hsinthay
Creek on the Pobbathiri circular road linking Zeyathiri and Pobbathiri
townships. The bridge was eroded by flooding in Hsinthay Creek.
Roads and
bridges damaged by flash flooding are repaired in Nay Pyi Taw Council Area. At
present, the inter-district road between Tatkon and Pyinmana townships is used
to transport relief supplies and other goods so they are not delayed.
Torrential
rains, which flew into the Hsinthay and Ngalaik creeks and Paung laung River,
caused casualties to five of eight townships in Nay Pyi Taw Council Area.
Hence, 82 relief camps are open in relevant towns and villages with efforts of
Tatmadaw members, Myanmar Police Force members, firefighters, departmental
personnel and charity organizations for rescue, relief and rehabilitation
measures.
Currently, the
water level in the Sittoung River is in danger, but people along the river have
prepared to overcome the challenges of loss and damage caused by flooding. —
MNA/TTA
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