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Flood situation improves in Noakhali, Laxmipur 

Published : Tuesday, 3 September, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 518
Countryside Desk
Flood situation in Noakhali and Laxmipur districts is improving as floodwater started receding from the affected areas, and the distribution of relief materials to the flood-affected people is continuing. 

NOAKHALI: Flood situation is improving as flood water started receding 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 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 diarrhoea 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 diarrhoea, 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. 


LAXMIPUR: The flood situations in five upazilas of Laxmipur District are improving as floodwater started to recede from the affected areas and the distribution of relief materials continues to the flood-affected people.

At least there are still six lakh people in the district who are stranded by the floodwater. As many as 32,000 people have got shelter in shelter centres of the district. Distribution of relief materials continues to the flood-affected people, said Additional DC (General) in Laxmipur JP Dewan.

The district administration has already provided 800 tonnes of rice, dry food, cooked food, baby food and cow food to the shelter centres.

Various social organizations, army, students of the anti-discrimination student movement, volunteers, leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), leaders and activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and the district administration continued to distribute the relief materials among the flood victims.

Bilkis Akhtar, executive engineer of Directorate of Public Health Engineering of the district, said that safe drinking water is provided from mobile water treatment plants in flood-affected areas.

District Livestock Officer Dr Kumud Ranjan Mitra said that due to the flood lots of houses were damaged in five upazilas of the district.



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