Poor people suffer as shivering cold continues

The biting cold, coupled with dense fog, hit the normal life hard across the country on Sunday. The number of patients with cold-related diseases and diarrhoea is growing forcing them to crowd hospitals and clinics at different parts of the country, especially the northern districts, reports UNB.

Besides, the poor, particularly the day labourers and rickshaw-pullers, have been suffering badly due to the shivering cold. Those living in slums and chars have also become the worst suffers for lack of adequate warm clothes.

According to the Met office, the chilling condition is unlikely to improve very soon.

Contacted, Abdul Manna, a meteorologist at the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD), said the country's Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions are still under a 'marginal cold wave' with the average temperature remaining below 10 degrees Celsius.

Mannan said the chilling condition in the capital is likely to prevail four more days as the sun remains almost invisible during daytime due to the fogy condition.