GAIBANDHA, Sept 13 (BSS): The people in the flood-hit areas of the district are being attacked with water borne diseases like diarrhoea, dysentery, respiratory track infection, skin and eye infection with the recession of flood waters in the major rivers.
According to sources water level of the Brahmaputra and Teesta continued to rise for a couple of weeks last month. At one stage, the rivers were flowing above danger mark at various points of the district.
As a result, the chars and river basin areas of 30 unions in Sundarganj, Gaibandha Sadar, Fulchhari and Shaghata upazials of the district were flooded making about 0.15 million people marooned.
As the people remained marooned in the last two weeks, they passed their days miserably for want of food, drinking water and shelter, said Saddam Hossain Paban, a social worker of flood prone area of Kamarjani under Gaibandha Sadar upazila.
Many of them took shelter on the near-by embankment, high land and schools with their belongings including domestic animals and poultry birds adding to the woes of the flood victims. As the tube wells went under flood waters, the marooned people were compelled to drink river water to survive.
As a result of taking sub standard food items and polluted water, the flood victims, particularly the children were attacked with different water borne diseases including diarrhoea and dysentery.
Water borne diseases hit Gaibandha
FE Team | Published: September 14, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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