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, reports BSS.
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 being bitten by snakes and 116 people were hospitalised 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 organisations and the students of anti-discrimination student movement, he added.
