Flood situation improving in Noakhali

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

As a result, many flood victims who had taken shelter in flood 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 district's flood-affected people.

Munshi Ameer Faisal, the executive engineer of the district Water Development Board, 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, a resident doctor of Noakhali General Hospital, said the
the number of patients with diarrhoea has increased in the hospital.

In the last 24 hours, 18 people were admitted to the hospital with snakebite, and 116 people were hospitalised 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 homes 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.