US-funded anti-disaster center opened in central Vietnam
The People’s Committee of the central Vietnamese province of Quang Nam and the US Pacific Command inaugurated and put into operation a US-funded center for disaster prevention and control on March 3.
Located in the provincial capital of Tam Ky, the center has two stories with a gross floor area of nearly 450m².
It is equipped with a solar energy system and a 30kVA power generator.
Work on the center started in July 2014 in the form of a turnkey project, with funding from the US Pacific Command and the US Defense Cooperation Office.
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The center will facilitate Quang Nam in its activities to cope with disasters in the context that climate and weather conditions have been more and more extreme, Brigadier General John. E. O’Neil, the Director for Logistics, Engineering and Security Cooperation under the U.S. Pacific Command, said at the inauguration ceremony.
This center is the first of two anti-disaster centers to be built by the US Pacific Command in Vietnam, the official said.
In the coming time, the US Pacific command will continue funding the construction of a junior high school and a health station in Phu Ninh District of the same province, he added.