People feel cold as a mild cold wave is sweeping different districts especially Panchagarh, Kurigram, Jashore and Chudanga in the country. Country’s minimum temperature of 13.4°C was recorded at Srimangal in Moulvibazar District on Sunday.
People specially the low income group living the in north, northeast, northwest and mid-districts are feeling biting cold. The cold wave accompanied by dense fog will aggravate the situation by the beginning of January and biting cold wave may continue across the country. Common people living in the country’s char areas or near river banks are the worst sufferers. Besides, dense fog and strong cold wind are also intensifying people’s sufferings in many ways. On the other hand, there has been a sharp rise in the number of patients suffering from cold-related diseases across the country, while the poor are facing the biting cold without warm clothes.
As a result, most of the government hospitals and health complexes are struggling to cope with the situation due to shortage of manpower and accommodation.
Cold-related diseases are spreading in the country, due to the ongoing gloomy and foggy weather. Besides, the falling temperature is forcing people in the north to stay indoors from afternoon while businesses are being hampered.
The cold wave accompanied
by dense fog will aggravate
the situation by the
beginning of January
Physicians have already warned that the number of patients, especially children and the elderly suffering from cold-related ailments like, respiratory difficulty, pneumonia, and diarrhoea, might further increase in the coming days. With deteriorating chilling condition, the local administration will also have to start distributing warm clothes among the distressed to mitigate their sufferings
immediately.
Besides, blankets should be distributed to the cold-hit distressed and poor under the direct supervision of upazila administration and local government bodies including social organisations.
Apart from the government, the well off sections of the society and different socio- economic organisations of the country will also have to stand by the cold-affected people with the mentality to distribute warm clothes to them as part of social responsibility.
Some people are buying warm clothes while the low-income group such as day labourers, workers, peasants and floating people are getting worried. Poor people are seen burning straw and tree leaves to fight the cold at night and they are also seen worried due to lack of work.To keep common people’s livelihood active, the government and the affluent people to come forward with relief in this regard as early as possible.
