Flood situation improving in Noakhali

Flood situation is improving as flood water
started to recede from the affected areas of the district.

Human suffering in the district is decreasing day by day. As a result, many
flood victims who had taken shelter in flood shelter centres or other safer
places with belongings including domestic animals have started going to their
houses.

Distribution of relief and necessary materials continues among the flood
affected people of the district.

Munshi Ameer Faisal, executive engineer of the Water Development Board of the
district, said 1.5 cm of water has receded in the district in the last 12
hours as there has been no rain for the last three days.

Dr Syed Mohiuddin, resident doctor of Noakhali General Hospital, said the
number of patients with diarrhea has increased in the hospital.

In the last 24 hours, 18 people were admitted to the hospital due to bitten by
snakes and 116 people were hospitalized due to diarrhea, he added.

Deputy Commissioner (DC) Dewan Mahbubur Rahman said people from 1,269 shelter
centres in the district have started returning to their home gradually as the
flood water has started receding.

“Fresh water is scarce as most of the tube-well is under water. So everyone is
being given necessary water purification tablets and saline,” he said.

The DC said 124 government and 16 private medical teams are working in the
flood affected areas of the district while adequate health workers are being
provided medical treatment in the shelters of the flood affected areas.

Relief distribution continues among the flood-hit people here on behalf of
different political and voluntary organizations and the students of anti-
discrimination student movement, he added. (BSS)