Sylhet Correspondent :
Water-borne diseases such as diarrhea and enteric fever have spread in the flood affected areas of Sylhet Division due to lack of pure drinking water, sources said.
A large number of people in the flood-hit districts have become homeless as their safe water sources and living places are still submerged with flood water.
In the situation, flood victims have been suffering from acute crises of food and safe water, although relief efforts by the government and non-government levels are going on at many places, they opined.
Meanwhile, 4 districts have been affected by floods. Some districts are inundated with flood water to a large extent.
Medical services are being provided to flood affected people suffering from deadly water-borne diseases.
The civil surgeons of Sylhet district said they have directed their upazila health and family planning officers to set up medical camps comprising a doctor, medical assistant and a nurse to provide medical services to the flood victims.
Special instructions have also been given from the Directorate of Health Services to civil surgeons of flood affected districts to make an effective coordination with the district and upazila administrations to reach the flood affected people for providing medical services.
Oral saline, IV saline, water purifying tablets and some antibiotics are being distributed to the flood affected people for prevention of water-borne diseases.
Special medical teams have been formed at district and upazilla levels to monitor the health complications of flood-hit people so that water-borne diseases cannot spread.
Sunamgonj civil surgeon Dr Ashutus Das said, ‘We are getting 170 diarrhoea patients and 200 patients with skin diseases every day.’
Additional Director General of Directorate of Health Services Dr Ehethashamul Haque Chowdhury told daily sun that special instructions had been conveyed to health assistants of concerned flood affected areas to conduct a speedy survey to find out the dysfunctional tube wells in a bid to install another tube wells for providing safe water for flood-hit people.
‘We have made effective coordination with Public Health Engineering Department so that people in flood affected areas can get safe water within a shortest possible time,’ he added.
Water-borne diseases such as diarrhea and enteric fever have spread in the flood affected areas of Sylhet Division due to lack of pure drinking water, sources said.
A large number of people in the flood-hit districts have become homeless as their safe water sources and living places are still submerged with flood water.
In the situation, flood victims have been suffering from acute crises of food and safe water, although relief efforts by the government and non-government levels are going on at many places, they opined.
Meanwhile, 4 districts have been affected by floods. Some districts are inundated with flood water to a large extent.
Medical services are being provided to flood affected people suffering from deadly water-borne diseases.
The civil surgeons of Sylhet district said they have directed their upazila health and family planning officers to set up medical camps comprising a doctor, medical assistant and a nurse to provide medical services to the flood victims.
Special instructions have also been given from the Directorate of Health Services to civil surgeons of flood affected districts to make an effective coordination with the district and upazila administrations to reach the flood affected people for providing medical services.
Oral saline, IV saline, water purifying tablets and some antibiotics are being distributed to the flood affected people for prevention of water-borne diseases.
Special medical teams have been formed at district and upazilla levels to monitor the health complications of flood-hit people so that water-borne diseases cannot spread.
Sunamgonj civil surgeon Dr Ashutus Das said, ‘We are getting 170 diarrhoea patients and 200 patients with skin diseases every day.’
Additional Director General of Directorate of Health Services Dr Ehethashamul Haque Chowdhury told daily sun that special instructions had been conveyed to health assistants of concerned flood affected areas to conduct a speedy survey to find out the dysfunctional tube wells in a bid to install another tube wells for providing safe water for flood-hit people.
‘We have made effective coordination with Public Health Engineering Department so that people in flood affected areas can get safe water within a shortest possible time,’ he added.
