Social issues in the first two months of 2018
Monday, March 12,2018AsemconnectVietnam - People’s life and social security:In the first two months of 2018, the whole country had 40.1 thousand households suffering from food shortage, a decrease of 45% from the same period last year, corresponding to 149 thousand persons suffering from food shortage, a decline 50%, showed the figure of the General Statistics Office.
To overcome this problem, all administrative levels, sectors and localities from central to local level supported difficult households with 4.3 thousand tons of rice.
Social security work on the occasion of Lunar New Year 2018 was concerned by authorities at all levels. According to the preliminary report, about 8.1 million gifts with a total value of nearly 3.3 trillion dongs were donated to martyrs’ families, families with meritorious services to the revolution, policy beneficiary objects; and 896 billion dongs were provided to poor households to welcome the Lunar New Year festival.
Epidemic diseases and food poisoning
Generally, in two beginning months of 2018, the whole country had over 3000 cases of hand, foot, mouth disease; 8000 cases of hemorrhagic fever; 40 cases of typhoid; 47 cases of virus encephalitis; 6 cases of meningococcal disease; and 279 persons with food poisoning.
Total number of alive HIV-infected persons over the country as of February 17, 2018 was 209.3 thousand persons and 90.4 thousandcases turned to AIDS. The number of persons died of HIV/AIDS nationwide as of above time-point was 95.6 thousand persons.
Traffic accidents
Generally, in the first two months of the year, 3345 traffic accidents occurred nationwide, including 1676 traffic accidents of less serious or more and 1669 traffic crashes, making 1506 persons died, 780 ones injured and 1737 ones slightly injured. Compared with the same period last year, the number of traffic accidents in two beginning months of 2018 decreased by 3.5% (the number of traffic accidents from less serious and over went down by 6.8%, the number of traffic crashes grew by 0.2%); Number of dead moved down by 4.1%; the number of injured people increased by 28.1% and the number of minor injuries reduced by 15.3%. On an average, each day in two months, the whole country had 54 traffic accidents, including 27 traffic accidents of less serious or more and 27 traffic crashes, making 24 persons died, 13 ones injured and 28 ones slightly injured.
Damages caused by natural calamity, environment protection, fire and explosion prevention
Generally, in the first two months of the year, natural calamity made 3.9 thousand hectares of rice and crops damaged, 4400 head of cattle died. Total value of damage was more than 65 billion dongs.
Generally, in the first two months of this year, 2486 cases of violating regulations of environment protection were found over the country, of which 2184 cases were treated with total fine of 27.1 billion dongs.
Generally, in two beginning months of the year, the whole country had 715 cases of fire and explosion, killing 23 persons and injuring 59 others, the value of damage was estimated at over 342.4 billion dongs.
Source: General Statistics Office
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