Chuadanga Correspondent :
The chilling cold prevails in the district has been paralyzing normal life.
Thousands of poor, ultra poor and rootless people of district are suffering greatly for lack of necessary warm clothes.
The biting cold, dense fog and chilling winds crippled people’s life in the district.
The local met office recorded the lowest temperature of the district at 6.5 degrees Celsius on Wednesday morning.
Samadul Haque, District Meteorology Officer said,” We are not confirmed whether the situation will improve in coming days.”
In the morning, the total district town is being blanketed with dense fog. As a result, anything even 12 to 14 feet apart are invisible till 12 pm. The engine and battery-run vehicles are plying on the road with their headlights on. Few people are going out of home for only urgent need.
Many school, college and office goers are suffering immensely as they have to wait for long for vehicles because no vehicular movement is seen sometimes amid low visibility.
Farmer Fokir Mohammed of Zolibila village in Sadar Upazila said,²Farmers especially vegetables growers are worried about their produce as the vegetables traders did not come to the local markets to purchase vegetables. We are apprehending huge losses in suck biting cold weather.²
Many rickshaw and van pullers cannot run their vehicles and are passing time idly for lack of passengers. Sometimes they have to sit wrapping their bodies with blankets on their vehicles.
A rickshaw puller Robin of Zehala Village in Alamdanga Upazila said,²I can’t maintain my family well with my poor income. Now, the biting cold has prevented me from earning.²
People of middle class and poor income groups are crowding on roadside markets to purchase warm clothes, but the price of the second hand clothes has increased from Taka 40 to 50.
Floating and distressed people in the morning and night are trying to fight with the chilling cold by burning straw, papers and dry leaves sitting beside roads and under open sky for lack of warm clothes.
On the other hand, children and elderly persons are being attacked with cold related diseases including pneumonia, bronchitis, diarrhea, dysentery and jaundice, said local hospital sources.
Dr. Mohabubur Milon pediatric specialist at Chuadanga said 80 to 100 cold related patients are taking treatment everyday from the outdoor section at the Chuadanga Hospital.
²We have called upon all affluent people and organizations to extend their hand to mitigate the suffering of the distressed cold-hit people,²said Gopal Chandra Dash, deputy commissioner of Chuadanga.
BSS from Rangpur adds: The northernmost sub-Himalayan town of Tentulia in Panchagarh district on Wednesday recorded the season’s lowest temperature of 4.9 degrees Celsius causing untold sufferings to the common people.
The mercury levels marked little ups and downs during the past 24 hours ending at 6 pm today again forcing the people to remain indoors due to bone-chilling cold exposing the poor, elder citizens and minor children to intensemiseries.
Dense layers of fogs amid blowing cooler winds from the north and northwestern directions caused bone-chilling cold exposing the poor, elder citizens and minor children to intense miseries and forcing the people to remain indoors till 9 am on Wednesday..
Officials at Rangpur Met Office said the country’s lowest temperature of 4.9 degrees Celsius was recorded on Wednesday at Tentulia monitoring point in Panchagarh district at 6 am.
The situation remained mostly unchanged in Rangpur city where the minimum temperature of 10 degrees against on Tuesday’s 9.5 degrees Celsius.
Besides, the minimum temperatures recorded today were 7.5 degrees Celsius at Dinajpur, 8.2 degrees at Syedpur, 8 degrees at Dimla and 8.6 degrees Celsius at Rajarhat point in Kurigram.
Local residents said the number of patients with cough, fever, asthma and other cold and climate change related diseases continued increasing on Wednesday.like during the past five days in the region.
Director of Rangpur Medical College Hospital Dr Ajay Kumar Roy said physicians are providing necessary heath services to the increasing number of cold-related patents in the hospital like other health service facilities.
“We have adequate stocks of necessary medicines and necessary steps have been taken to provide proper treatments to cold-related patients,” Dr Roy said.
Meanwhile, the district and upazila administrations, voluntary, professional and socio-cultural organisations and other institutions have intensified distribution of warm clothes among the cold-stricken people in the region.
Deputy Commissioner of Kurigram Sultana Pervin said distributing of 42,000 pieces of blankets among the cold-stricken people is progressing in full swing in all nine upazilas of the district.
Deputy Director (Local Government) for Rangpur Ruhul Amin Mian said distribution of over 50,000 pieces of blankets allocated so far by theMinistry of Disaster Management and Relief continues among clod-hit people across the district.
Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture Extension at its regional office Agriculturist Md Moniruzzaman said the sweeping cold wave might affect normal growth of different Rabi crop plants, including potato and Boro seedbeds.
“The farmers should contact the sub-assistant agriculture officers in their respective areas for necessary suggestions on nursing their growing crop plants and Boro rice seedbeds if the situation further deteriorates,”Moniruzzaman added.
According to reports reaching here from the remote and char villages in Kurigram, Dinajpur, Thakurgaon, Panchagarh, Lalmonirhat, Gaibandha, Rangpur and Nilphamari districts of the region said that normal life remained severely affected there on Wednesday.
The chilling cold prevails in the district has been paralyzing normal life.
Thousands of poor, ultra poor and rootless people of district are suffering greatly for lack of necessary warm clothes.
The biting cold, dense fog and chilling winds crippled people’s life in the district.
The local met office recorded the lowest temperature of the district at 6.5 degrees Celsius on Wednesday morning.
Samadul Haque, District Meteorology Officer said,” We are not confirmed whether the situation will improve in coming days.”
In the morning, the total district town is being blanketed with dense fog. As a result, anything even 12 to 14 feet apart are invisible till 12 pm. The engine and battery-run vehicles are plying on the road with their headlights on. Few people are going out of home for only urgent need.
Many school, college and office goers are suffering immensely as they have to wait for long for vehicles because no vehicular movement is seen sometimes amid low visibility.
Farmer Fokir Mohammed of Zolibila village in Sadar Upazila said,²Farmers especially vegetables growers are worried about their produce as the vegetables traders did not come to the local markets to purchase vegetables. We are apprehending huge losses in suck biting cold weather.²
Many rickshaw and van pullers cannot run their vehicles and are passing time idly for lack of passengers. Sometimes they have to sit wrapping their bodies with blankets on their vehicles.
A rickshaw puller Robin of Zehala Village in Alamdanga Upazila said,²I can’t maintain my family well with my poor income. Now, the biting cold has prevented me from earning.²
People of middle class and poor income groups are crowding on roadside markets to purchase warm clothes, but the price of the second hand clothes has increased from Taka 40 to 50.
Floating and distressed people in the morning and night are trying to fight with the chilling cold by burning straw, papers and dry leaves sitting beside roads and under open sky for lack of warm clothes.
On the other hand, children and elderly persons are being attacked with cold related diseases including pneumonia, bronchitis, diarrhea, dysentery and jaundice, said local hospital sources.
Dr. Mohabubur Milon pediatric specialist at Chuadanga said 80 to 100 cold related patients are taking treatment everyday from the outdoor section at the Chuadanga Hospital.
²We have called upon all affluent people and organizations to extend their hand to mitigate the suffering of the distressed cold-hit people,²said Gopal Chandra Dash, deputy commissioner of Chuadanga.
BSS from Rangpur adds: The northernmost sub-Himalayan town of Tentulia in Panchagarh district on Wednesday recorded the season’s lowest temperature of 4.9 degrees Celsius causing untold sufferings to the common people.
The mercury levels marked little ups and downs during the past 24 hours ending at 6 pm today again forcing the people to remain indoors due to bone-chilling cold exposing the poor, elder citizens and minor children to intensemiseries.
Dense layers of fogs amid blowing cooler winds from the north and northwestern directions caused bone-chilling cold exposing the poor, elder citizens and minor children to intense miseries and forcing the people to remain indoors till 9 am on Wednesday..
Officials at Rangpur Met Office said the country’s lowest temperature of 4.9 degrees Celsius was recorded on Wednesday at Tentulia monitoring point in Panchagarh district at 6 am.
The situation remained mostly unchanged in Rangpur city where the minimum temperature of 10 degrees against on Tuesday’s 9.5 degrees Celsius.
Besides, the minimum temperatures recorded today were 7.5 degrees Celsius at Dinajpur, 8.2 degrees at Syedpur, 8 degrees at Dimla and 8.6 degrees Celsius at Rajarhat point in Kurigram.
Local residents said the number of patients with cough, fever, asthma and other cold and climate change related diseases continued increasing on Wednesday.like during the past five days in the region.
Director of Rangpur Medical College Hospital Dr Ajay Kumar Roy said physicians are providing necessary heath services to the increasing number of cold-related patents in the hospital like other health service facilities.
“We have adequate stocks of necessary medicines and necessary steps have been taken to provide proper treatments to cold-related patients,” Dr Roy said.
Meanwhile, the district and upazila administrations, voluntary, professional and socio-cultural organisations and other institutions have intensified distribution of warm clothes among the cold-stricken people in the region.
Deputy Commissioner of Kurigram Sultana Pervin said distributing of 42,000 pieces of blankets among the cold-stricken people is progressing in full swing in all nine upazilas of the district.
Deputy Director (Local Government) for Rangpur Ruhul Amin Mian said distribution of over 50,000 pieces of blankets allocated so far by theMinistry of Disaster Management and Relief continues among clod-hit people across the district.
Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture Extension at its regional office Agriculturist Md Moniruzzaman said the sweeping cold wave might affect normal growth of different Rabi crop plants, including potato and Boro seedbeds.
“The farmers should contact the sub-assistant agriculture officers in their respective areas for necessary suggestions on nursing their growing crop plants and Boro rice seedbeds if the situation further deteriorates,”Moniruzzaman added.
According to reports reaching here from the remote and char villages in Kurigram, Dinajpur, Thakurgaon, Panchagarh, Lalmonirhat, Gaibandha, Rangpur and Nilphamari districts of the region said that normal life remained severely affected there on Wednesday.
