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Official Dispatch No. 219/CĐ-TTg dated November 17, 2025, from the Prime Minister, sent to the Secretaries of the Provincial/City Party Committees and the Chairpersons of the People's Committees of the provinces and cities of: Ha Tinh, Quang Tri, Hue, Da Nang, Quang Ngai, Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Khanh Hoa, and Lam Dong; Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, and agencies under the Government; and the Office of the National Civil Defense Steering Committee.
According to the report from the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, due to the influence of cold air and strong easterly winds, from 7:00 AM on November 16 to 1:00 PM on November 17, 2025, the localities from Ha Tinh to Khanh Hoa experienced very heavy rain: the total rainfall in Hue and Khanh Hoa was generally 150-300mm, with an exceptional recorded amount of 1,085mm at Binh Dien (Hue); Da Nang recorded 100-200mm, with some places exceeding 700mm; Quang Tri and Quang Ngai recorded 80-180mm, with some places exceeding 700mm; Gia Lai and Dak Lak recorded 50-120mm, with some places exceeding 840mm.
Widespread heavy to very heavy rain, especially localized intense downpours occurring immediately after prolonged floods throughout October and early November, has continued to cause major floods and deep inundation in urban areas and low-lying regions. Notably, rock and soil landslides occurred in many places in Da Nang and Khanh Hoa. According to a summary by functional agencies, as of the evening of November 17, 2025, the floods and landslides had resulted in 12 people dead and missing, and 19 injured, of which the landslide incident that occurred on the night of November 16, 2025, in the area of Khanh Le Pass, located in Nam Khanh Vinh commune, Khanh Hoa province, alone caused 6 deaths.
On behalf of the Party and State leadership, the Prime Minister extends his profound condolences, sympathy, and shared grief over the pain and loss to the families with victims, missing persons, or injured people due to the natural disaster. He also shares the continuous hardships and difficulties faced by the people of the Central region amidst the scene of "flood after flood" and "storm after storm."
Following Official Dispatches No. 217/CĐ-TTg dated November 16, 2025, and No. 218/CĐ-TTg dated November 17, 2025, and in order to proactively respond, ensure the safety of the people's lives, and minimize damage caused by rain and floods, the Prime Minister requests:
1. The Ministers of the Ministries of National Defence, Public Security, Agriculture and Rural Development, Construction, Industry and Trade, Health, and Education and Training, and other related Ministries and agencies under the Government; and the Secretaries of the Provincial/City Party Committees and the Chairpersons of the People's Committees of the aforementioned provinces and cities shall, according to their functions, duties, and authority:
a) Must proactively and promptly direct the implementation of prevention, avoidance, response, and rapid recovery efforts following the rain and floods, especially concerning the risks of landslides, flash floods, and inundation, with the utmost urgency and decisiveness, ready to respond to the worst-case scenarios and avoid being passive or surprised.
b) Update the situation and submit reports to the Government Office, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, and the Office of the National Civil Defense Steering Committee before 1:00 PM daily for synthesis and reporting to competent authorities.
2. The Secretaries of the Provincial/City Party Committees and the Chairpersons of the People's Committees of the provinces and cities in the forecasted rain and flood areas must focus their leadership, direction, and immediately deploy necessary tasks and measures to ensure the safety of the people's lives, placing the safety of people's lives first and foremost, including:
a) Mobilizing the military, public security forces, and other forces to immediately access, by all means, isolated residential areas due to flooding and landslides to promptly support residents, provide relief aid, including food and essential goods, and evacuate necessary cases to ensure safety.
b) Continue to review, promptly detect, warn, and proactively organize the evacuation and relocation of all people out of dangerous areas, especially those at high risk of landslides, flash floods, and deep inundation. Concurrently, have plans to support residents at evacuation sites, ensuring security and order, and protecting the people's property.
c) Deploy forces to set up checkpoints, control, and guide traffic, preventing people from passing through dangerous, unsafe areas, especially on transportation routes at risk of rock and soil landslides, deeply flooded areas, and where water flows rapidly.
d) Proactively arrange forces, vehicles, and materials, and fully stockpile necessary food, foodstuffs, and essential goods in key, vulnerable areas identified as having a high risk of being cut off due to landslides and flooding; proactively deploy additional supply plans when prolonged isolation occurs for many days.
e) Prepare forces and appropriate means to be ready to promptly access, handle emergency situations, carry out civilian evacuation, and conduct rescue and relief operations in areas experiencing deep flooding.
e) Promptly organize visits, encouragement, support, and share the hardships and losses with families affected by the natural disaster and floods, especially families with deceased, missing, or injured members; take care of accommodation for households that lost their homes; provide support with food, foodstuffs, essential goods, clean drinking water, electricity, and telecommunications signals to the people; handle environmental sanitation, disease, and epidemic prevention; ensure study conditions for students, medical examination and treatment for the people, and restore production and business activities immediately after the flood recedes.
g) Promptly synthesize and report fully and accurately on the rain and flood situation, damages (if any), and recovery efforts in the area, submitting them to the Government Office, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Ministry of Finance, the Office of the National Civil Defense Steering Committee, and relevant agencies before 1:00 PM daily for synthesis and reporting to competent authorities as prescribed.
3. The Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment:
a) Focus direction on functional agencies to continue closely monitoring, forecasting, and providing full and timely information on the rain and flood situation, the risk of landslides, inundation, and flash floods to the people and functional agencies; proactively urge and direct disaster prevention, avoidance, and response efforts according to their functions, duties, and authority; promptly direct and guide localities to simultaneously deploy measures for consequence remediation and agricultural production recovery immediately after the rain and floods.
b) Chair and coordinate with relevant Ministries and agencies to synthesize and update the situation, response efforts, and consequence remediation after the rain and floods, submitting reports to the Government Office before 3:00 PM daily for synthesis and reporting to competent authorities.
4. The Ministers of the Ministry of National Defence and the Ministry of Public Security must direct the military, public security forces, self-defense militia, and grassroots security forces to mobilize the maximum possible forces, vehicles, materials, and equipment, coordinating with other forces to promptly support the evacuation and relocation of residents, the prevention, avoidance, and response to rain, floods, landslides, and flash floods, and assist the people and businesses in rapidly overcoming the consequences of the natural disaster.
5. The Ministers of the Ministries of Construction, Industry and Trade, Science and Technology, and other relevant ministries and sectors shall, according to their functions, duties, and authority, proactively direct related agencies and units to coordinate and assist localities in focusing on response, rapid remediation of rain and flood consequences, and restoring operations in education, health, and infrastructure (electricity, telecommunications signals, transportation, water supply and drainage, etc.) immediately after the natural disaster.
6. The Minister of the Ministry of Finance shall direct the implementation of support policies and the prompt payment of insurance claims to restore production and business activities after the natural disaster; and promptly handle, within their authority, or report to competent authorities for processing local proposals for support to overcome the consequences of storms and floods in accordance with the law.
7. The Chief of the Office of the National Civil Defense Steering Committee shall coordinate with functional agencies of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to closely monitor the situation's developments to coordinate and mobilize forces and resources to support localities in responding to rain and floods, according to the assigned functions and duties.
8. Assign Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha to direct ministries, sectors, and localities to implement response and consequence remediation efforts after the rain and floods; Deputy Prime Minister Ho Duc Phoc shall promptly direct the use of central reserve resources to support localities in carrying out urgent tasks for responding to and remediating the consequences of rain and floods in accordance with the law.
9. The Government Office shall, based on its assigned functions and duties, monitor and urge the implementation of this Official Dispatch; and promptly report to the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Ministers in charge of the relevant sectors on sudden and arising issues.