Severe heat wave coupled with frequent load-shedding has made life miserable in districts. People and animals have turned baffled amid intense heat wave for the past few days.
MEHERPUR: A draught like situation has been prevailing in the district for more than 15 days.
The heat is intensifying every day in the extreme climate-prone district with no sign of rainfall.
The intolerable heat wave, now sweeping over the district, has not only been affecting the district dwellers but also damaging crops and vegetation.
Small economic activities are disrupted. Day-labourers, rickshaw-pullers, and van-drivers are suffering mostly.
Maize harvesting is facing trouble due to lack of day-labourers. In some places, labourers are going to maize fields before morning for harvesting maize, but coming back home within 10am.
The condition of domestic animals is bad to worse.
The movement of transports is thin because of poor passengers.
The mercury level is fluctuating from 36 to 41 degree Celsius for the last 15 days.
The hot spell has been continuing in the district for over one month.
Only some people are coming to the town in order to meet up their urgency or for medicare.
At least 15 persons and 20 children are being hospitalised daily with dehydration and respiratory problems, hospital sources said.
PABNA: The temperature has risen to around 40.5 degree Celsius. As a result, the public life in this area has become miserable. Animals and birds are facing adverse effects of excess temperature.
An official of Iswardi Meteorological Office (IMO) Farman Ali said, the highest temperature was recorded at 40.5 degree Celsius on Sunday at Iswardi. The temperature may increase, he added.
Locals said, the extremely hot weather has made their lives difficult, and they can hardly go out of their houses during daytime.
Farmer Hasan Ali in Pabna Sadar Upazila said, "There was no mentionable rainfall in the last several days. We are facing setback while working in crop fields amid the unbearable weather condition."
According to Health Office in the district, children and older people are affected badly due to the heat; they are getting infected by different diseases; patients are increasing in hospitals.
Many people are not going out of house. Few people are going to shops, markets, and offices and using public transport. Attendance of students in schools and colleges also decreased. Shop owners in different markets also reported fall in their sales.
"Many of our customers used to buy products before beginning of holy Ramadan. But this year, we found a very few customers due to this terrible hot weather," said Jalal Ahmed, a shop owner in the New Market area in the city.
Fewer people stay on the road in the daytime. Most of the people were found taking shelter under the shadow of different buildings like mosques and in parks.
A rickshaw-puller Lokman Hossain of Radhanagar area in the district town said, they are forced to go out in the unbearable situation only to earn daily bread. Some other labourers also expressed similar views.
Dr Ramdulal Bhoumi, private practitioner, said, along with the rising temperature, high humidity is increasing the severity of hot weather.
The ongoing hot weather may increase the spread of different diseases, particularly among children and elderly people, he added.
In village areas, most of the tubewells and ponds have dried up, and the irrigation activities in paddy lands are being hampered.
