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On the morning of November 6, Mr. Nguyen Thien Nhan - Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee and Head of the National Steering Committee for Avian Influenza Prevention and Control - announced his action to carry out the 62nd Green Sunday with the theme ' Accompanying environmental sanitation acts to contribute to the prevention of avian influenza H5N1 and human pandemic influenza 'in Hoc Mon district.

Vice chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan consulted local people and authorities in the slaughter area of ​​Ward 5, District 8

More than 450 youth union members and local people took part in environmental sanitation in residential areas, sprayed disinfectants at markets, poultry and slaughterhouses, slogans hung on public places .

Also on November 6, the Steering Committee for Avian Influenza Prevention and Control led by Mr. Nguyen Thien Nhan examined a number of 'hot spots' to raise, trade and slaughter poultry and waterfowl (with permission and without permission). in the city

Reflecting to Mr. Nguyen Thien Nhan, Mr. Ho Van Hai - Ham Moi 2 hamlet, Trung Chanh commune, Hoc Mon district - a family living on poultry farming in large numbers - said his facility currently has 5,000 children. no place to consume. The policy of the city requires people to self-consume in a short time is not possible. Besides, if not for poultry farming, the city must quickly consider supporting the relocation of the barns to the provinces that do not prohibit poultry raising.

When coming to the market of Tran Chanh Chieu (District 5), the local authorities reported to Mr. Nhan that many households that rented chicken trading places turned to selling rice and fresh food. However, there are still some poultry traders who live stealthily on the grounds that they do not know how to live by other jobs.

In District 8, after finding out the actual situation in the chicken and duck slaughtering area in Ward 5, Vice President Nguyen Thien Nhan proposed to agree on a plan to not maintain the implementation of the concentrated slaughter area project at P.6.

YEN TRINH