Sylhet Correspondent :
The flood victims of Sylhet Region were suffering from various waterborne diseases, including diarrhoea, dysentery, jaundice, typhoid and skin diseases, across the division due to the prolonged flooding.
In the last 8 days, 9,826 people had been affected by the waterborne diseases including diarrhoea, respiratory tract infection, eye inflammation, skin diseases in the flood affected areas of Sylhet, Moulvibazar, Sunamganj and Habiganj district, according to the statistics of Sylhet divisional health office.
Only on Thursday, a total 1,554 people, including children and women, were infected with different waterborne diseases that included diarrhoea, respiratory tract infection, eye inflammation and skin diseases across the division while 1 died in snack bite in the Moulvibazar, the data revealed.
According to the SDHO, 403 medical teams have been working in the flood affected areas across the division to provide medical service among the patients if necessary.
Sylhet Divisional Health Office director Md. Anisur Rahman told that apart from mobile medical teams, all health service centres, including Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital, hospitals of the district headquarters, upazila health complexes, and community clinics are kept ready to deal with the patients of water borne diseases during and after the flooding.
‘Water purifying tablets are being provided regularly among the flood-hit families through mobile medical teams,’ he said.
Meanwhile, 18,31,801 flood hit people remained marooned in the flooded area till Thursday.
Among them, 7,92,757 people are marooned in Sunamganj and 7,33,220 people in Sylhet district, the worst affected two districts. Of the marooned people, 22,414 victims were staying at different flood shelter centres across the division, as par the data.
The administrative officials and local people told that the victims, especially those who are residents in the remote downstream upazilas of the flood-hit Sylhet, Sunamganj, Moulvibazar and Habiganj district of the division could not return to normal life so far as the stagnant water was receding very slowly this time.