International Day of disaster Reduction, focusing on the resilience of Older people

This newspaper October 13 News (reporter Chen Correspondent Deng Wenyan) continued thunderstorm and gale, urban low-lying areas of water up to 60 cm, some of the building flooded, community cadres immediately start disaster contingency plans, timely organization of emergency units to troubleshoot hidden dangers, to help the affected residents to evacuate quickly, and to carry out rescue assistance for the elderly, and properly placed. Today is the 25th International Day for Disaster Reduction, the Provincial Committee on Disaster Reduction, the Provincial Aging Committee, provincial civil Affairs Department of the United Changsha related departments, in the Hou Jia Tang Street, Changsha, Hunan Rural Bridge community to carry out torrential rain and flood emergency drills, publicity "to enhance disaster resilience is to save lives-the elderly and

At present, our province more than 60 years old people up to 10.79 million, accounting for the total population of 16.13%, of whom 80 years old and above the elderly 1.33 million, the loss of energy, half of the elderly more than 2.25 million, urban and rural elderly families empty nest rate of more than 53%. It is of great significance to improve the consciousness of disaster prevention and mitigation, to improve the ability of the community to deal with the emergency, and to promote the disaster-resistant ability of the whole society. The drill highlights the actual combat, Street Community Command, the Department cooperates, the populace participates, from starts the emergency, the personnel evacuation, the rescue assistance, the underground garage, the Civil Air Defense Project investigation, to restores the traffic, maintains the normal order, one Ring fastens tightly, the observation activity provincial Civil Affairs Department party member, the provincial senior office director Chen Yihua Appraises said: " It has reached the objective of verifying the feasibility of contingency plan and improving the ability to deal with natural disaster, and also gave a practical and operational emergency rescue course to the personnel who participated in the drills and the on-the-spot observation. ”

The reporter learned from the provincial civil affairs department that in order to improve the capacity of comprehensive disaster prevention and mitigation of urban and rural communities in our province, the provincial civil affairs Department has invested more than 11 million yuan in recent years, set up a disaster information team covering provincial and county villages, five, more than 50,000 people, set up a community disaster relief material Storage room 1126, disaster emergency shelter 1563, The successful establishment of urban and rural comprehensive disaster mitigation demonstration Community 623, of which 212 national, 411 provincial level, comprehensive disaster prevention and mitigation capacity significantly strengthened.