Nearly two million flood-stricken people remained stranded in Sylhet region till Thursday despite the water levels of major rivers dropped accelerating sufferings to the victims due to crisis of food and rapid spreading of waterborne diseases.
According to the data available with the district administrations, 18,31,801 flood hit people remained marooned in the flooded area till Thursday.
Among them, 7,92,757 people are marooned in Sunamganj and 7,33,220 people in Sylhet district, the worst affected two districts.
Of the marooned people, 22,414 victims were staying at different flood shelter centres across the division, as par the data.
The administrative officials and local people told 抖阴精品 that the victims, especially those who are residents in the remote downstream upazilas of the flood-hit Sylhet, Sunamganj, Moulvibazar and Habiganj district of the division could not return to normal life so far as the stagnant water was receding very slowly this time.
鈥楩or that reason, many flood-stricken families are forcing to stay isolated in their homesteads as the floodwater is yet to recede completely from the rural paths or to stay at the flood shelter centres,鈥� Osmani Nagar upazila鈥檚 project implementation officer Sohel Rahman told 抖阴精品 in the afternoon.
He said that the district administration had granted 69 tonnes of rice with some other relief goods immediately after the flash flood hit the upazila on June 17 for second time in this monsoon.
鈥楾he government鈥檚 grants have already been finished. Now the flood shelter centres were running with the donations of different non-government organisations and social organisations,鈥� Sohel Rahman said, adding that the Osmani Nagar Upazila administration had provided cooked food in the flood shelter centres on Wednesday.
鈥榃e already had sent a fresh demand letter of relief to the district administration,鈥� he added, saying that there were 3,642 flood victims at 66 flood shelter centres in the upazila on Thursday while a total 1,92,000 people were stranded in floodwater.聽
Meanwhile, the Kushiyara, one of the two main rivers in Sylhet region, was flowing 87cm above the danger mark at Fenchuganj upazila in Sylhet at 6:00pm on Thursday, according to the Sylhet office of Bangladesh Water Development Board,.
The Juri River was flowing 165cm above the danger level at Juri upazila in Moulvibazar although the water level of other rivers already fell across the division, WDB Moulvibazar said.聽
Talking to 抖阴精品, Balaganj Upazila project implementation officer Priti Vushon Das said on Thursday afternoon that many of the flood-stricken people started to return home from this morning.
鈥楳aximum of the families, who are staying in the shelter centres, brought foods and other necessary goods from their homes. So, they are not feeling any difficulty for for not having relief,鈥� he said, adding that other supports including pure drinking water and medical service were being provided the inmates regularly.聽
There were 2,455 flood victims at 44 flood shelter centres on Thursday while a total 33,456 people were stranded in the floodwater in the Balaganj upazila, local administration said.聽聽
Meanwhile, the flood victims were suffering from various water borne diseases, including diarrhoea, dysentery, jaundice, typhoid and skin diseases, across the division due to the prolonged flooding.
In the last 8 days, 9,826 people had been affected by the waterborne diseases including diarrhoea, respiratory tract infection, eye inflammation, skin diseases in the flood affected areas of Sylhet, Moulvibazar, Sunamganj and Habiganj district, according to the statistics of Sylhet divisional health office.
Only on Thursday, a total 1,554 people, including children and women, were infected with different waterborne diseases that included diarrhoea, respiratory tract infection, eye inflammation and skin diseases across the division while 1 died in snack bite in the Moulvibazar, the data revealed.
According to the SDHO, 403 medical teams have been working in the flood affected areas across the division to provide medical service among the patients if necessary.
Sylhet Divisional Health Office director Md Anisur Rahman told 抖阴精品 that apart from mobile medical teams, all health service centres, including Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital, hospitals of the district headquarters, upazila health complexes, and community clinics are kept ready to deal with the patients of water borne diseases during and after the the flooding.
鈥榃ater purifying tablets are being provided regularly among the flood-hit families through mobile medical teams,鈥� he said.