The information was given by Truong Thi Ngoc Anh, deputy chairwoman of the Central Committee of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front (VFF), at a National Assembly (NA) discussion Wednesday.
According to Anh, the two batches consist of a total of 1.5 million masks. The 1.1-million mask batch, which is from the Vietnamese community in Hong Kong, has been stuck at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City, while the other, which is from a business in Germany, has been kept at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi.
Truong Thi Ngoc Anh, deputy chairwoman of the Central Committee of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front, spoke at a National Assembly discussion on May 25
Yen added that the VFF had submitted all necessary papers on receiving the donations as regulated to customs authorities, however, they said that this needed to be certified by the Ministry of Finance.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Finance asked the VFF to follow the regulations of a decree issued in October 2021 on receiving donations. So the VFF was required to contact the Ministry of Health for some procedures.
The VFF then asked the Ministry of Health for support but has not yet received feedback. As a result, until now, the consignments have been stuck at the airport.
Last November, about 22,000 cartons of milk donated by the Vietnamese community in Australia to Covid-19 victims in HCM City had been kept due to customs procedures until some NA deputies took the case to a discussion.
