BSS, Rangpur :
The mild to moderate cold wave coupled with cooler wind and fog continued paralysing normal life in the northern districts causing untold sufferings and miseries to the people for the second consecutive day yesterday.
The situation worsened during the past couple of days as the minimum temperatures ranged between 8 and 12 degrees and the maximum between 15 and 20 degrees celsius at most places in the region, Met Office sources said.
The city of Rangpur experienced minimum temperature of 8.7 degrees celsius against Friday’s minimum of 11 degrees celsius.
Besides, minimum temperatures recorded yesterday were 8.7 degrees celsius at Dinajpur against on Friday’s 10.4 degrees and 7.8 degrees celsius at Syedpur yesterday against Friday’s minimum of degrees 10.5 celsius.
The sun remained covered behind the thick layers of fogs amid blowing cooler winds almost throughout the day yesterday affecting vehicular traffic and forcing the drivers to put headlights of their vehicles on for averting accidents.
The concerned district administrations, NGOs, charitable, business bodies and other organisations have intensified distribution of warm clothes among the cold-hit people in the northern districts in recent days, official sources said
District Relief and Rehabilitation Officer Abdus Salam of Rangpur said sufferings of common people have mounted, but none died from cold so far as the peoples’ economic conditions have improved in recent years to avail warm clothes at their own.
“We have distributed 18,500 pieces of blankets, 1400 pieces of sweaters and 600 pieces of rappers, allocated by the government, so far among cold-hit people in Rangpur alone and are expecting more allocations from the government,” he added.
Sources in Divisional Health administration here told BSS that adequate steps have been taken in all government hospitals and upazila health complexes to provide proper treatments to the increasing number of cold- related patients.
The number of pneumonia and diarrhoeal patents, mostly the older persons, children and babies, continues increasing due to the sweeping bone-chilling cold wave in the sub-Himalayan region in recent days.
However, no report of any cold- related death was received from anywhere in Rangpur division so far and the child specialists have been conducting their duties round the clock in the hospitals at district and upazila levels, the source said.
Agriculture Coordinator of RDRS Bangladesh Mamunur Rashid said the situation has been deteriorating and causing immense sufferings to the people due to the adverse impacts of the global climate change.
Due to extreme cold and lack of adequate sun light, normal growths of all crop plants, including boro seedling, could be stranded,he said.
According to reports reaching here from the remote and hardly reachable sandy char villages in Kurigram, Lalmonirhat, Gaibandha, Rangpur and Nilphamari districts on the river basins, the normal life remained severely affected in those areas yesterday.
The mild to moderate cold wave coupled with cooler wind and fog continued paralysing normal life in the northern districts causing untold sufferings and miseries to the people for the second consecutive day yesterday.
The situation worsened during the past couple of days as the minimum temperatures ranged between 8 and 12 degrees and the maximum between 15 and 20 degrees celsius at most places in the region, Met Office sources said.
The city of Rangpur experienced minimum temperature of 8.7 degrees celsius against Friday’s minimum of 11 degrees celsius.
Besides, minimum temperatures recorded yesterday were 8.7 degrees celsius at Dinajpur against on Friday’s 10.4 degrees and 7.8 degrees celsius at Syedpur yesterday against Friday’s minimum of degrees 10.5 celsius.
The sun remained covered behind the thick layers of fogs amid blowing cooler winds almost throughout the day yesterday affecting vehicular traffic and forcing the drivers to put headlights of their vehicles on for averting accidents.
The concerned district administrations, NGOs, charitable, business bodies and other organisations have intensified distribution of warm clothes among the cold-hit people in the northern districts in recent days, official sources said
District Relief and Rehabilitation Officer Abdus Salam of Rangpur said sufferings of common people have mounted, but none died from cold so far as the peoples’ economic conditions have improved in recent years to avail warm clothes at their own.
“We have distributed 18,500 pieces of blankets, 1400 pieces of sweaters and 600 pieces of rappers, allocated by the government, so far among cold-hit people in Rangpur alone and are expecting more allocations from the government,” he added.
Sources in Divisional Health administration here told BSS that adequate steps have been taken in all government hospitals and upazila health complexes to provide proper treatments to the increasing number of cold- related patients.
The number of pneumonia and diarrhoeal patents, mostly the older persons, children and babies, continues increasing due to the sweeping bone-chilling cold wave in the sub-Himalayan region in recent days.
However, no report of any cold- related death was received from anywhere in Rangpur division so far and the child specialists have been conducting their duties round the clock in the hospitals at district and upazila levels, the source said.
Agriculture Coordinator of RDRS Bangladesh Mamunur Rashid said the situation has been deteriorating and causing immense sufferings to the people due to the adverse impacts of the global climate change.
Due to extreme cold and lack of adequate sun light, normal growths of all crop plants, including boro seedling, could be stranded,he said.
According to reports reaching here from the remote and hardly reachable sandy char villages in Kurigram, Lalmonirhat, Gaibandha, Rangpur and Nilphamari districts on the river basins, the normal life remained severely affected in those areas yesterday.
