Meeting with officials: SAC Chairman met with region and township officials

The Chairman of the State Administration Council Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing met with members of Mandalay Region and Pyin Oo Lwin Township Administration Councils, departmental personnel and town elders at the township hall of Pyin Oo Lwin Thursday morning.

At the meeting, Mandalay Region Chief Minister U Maung Ko and officials reported on the progress of the social, economic, health and regional development sectors of Mandalay Region. In his speech, the Senior General said as the infection rate is high in Pyin Oo Lwin District; it has been inserted into the list of stay-at-home programmes since July. Several COVID-19 infected persons hit more than 430,000 on 15 September with a less infection rate than the previous month.

Pyin  Oo Lwin dubbed as Flower City, Travel City and Education City faced halting of business triggered by infection of the pandemic. Only when the infection rate declines will the restrictions be eased. As the third wave of the disease was high with the infection rate in June and July, the Senior General himself led the central management measures for taking the preventive, containment and treatment measures in order to control the rapid infection rate and effectively undertake prevention, control and treatment tasks. Consequently, a decline in infection rate can be seen to some extent at present.

Hence, supervision and inspection must be done in all sectors. It must be an actual decline but data. Although the emphasis was placed on the prevention of COVID-19 in the early year, effective measures could not do due to a shortage of health staff. Public service personnel must stay away from party politics and must have knowledge about the difference of staff duties from party politics. Health staff members were invited to re-join the workplaces through announcements.

The State Administration Council especially emphasizes the purchase of vaccines for prevention and control of the disease. Thanks to the earnest efforts of the government, vaccines purchased from foreign countries arrive in Myanmar one batch after another with the plan to complete vaccination for 50 per cent of the total population of the country at the end of this year.

The Senior General called for the implementation of modern agriculture and livestock farming in the Mandalay Region. As Mandalay Region implements the solar system, such kind of solar system should be applied in pumping up the water from the rivers. The solar system is crucial for environmental conservation.

He called for undertaking systematic agriculture and livestock farms. The Senior General urged officials to strive for achieving success in the breeding of chicken, pig, goat, cow and fish in the region. The livestock farms must be improved to produce value-added products. It is necessary to consider the ways to distribute milk and dairy products in addition to frozen products to the domestic market as well as foreign market.

As Mandalay Region has good potential to successfully engage the breeding of dairy cows, emphasis must be placed on undertaking such a kind of business. He called for serving the interests of the State and the region to improve social, economic, health and development tasks of the regions they serve duties. Later, the Senior General cordially greeted the attendees at the meeting.