Bangladesh News

Water-borne diseases marked rise in the flood-hit districts as overall flood situation continued to improve yesterday.

The control room at the health directorate reported 1,995 new cases of diarrhoea in 76 upazilas of 48 districts in the past 24 hours till yesterday morning, up from 1,952 such cases in the previous corresponding period.

A Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre bulletin yesterday said flood situation in central and south-central districts was improving fast, adding that things would get better significantly by the next 48 hours.

It said water levels in the Brahmaputra, Jamuna and Ganges were falling fast which would continue for the next two-three days.

Inundation in the eastern parts of Dhaka city and in areas outside the city’s flood-protection embankment would ease off further in the next 48 hours, said the bulletin.

Flood situation in Dohar and Nawabganj upazilas of Dhaka, Munshiganj, Manikganj, Madaripur, Shariatpur, Gopalganj and Faridpur will also continue improving in the same period.

Erosion caused by the Padma and Arialkha, however, increased on their Faridpur stretches. The two rivers gobbled up about 250 houses and 570 acres of farmlands in Faridpur in the past few days, according to our Faridpur correspondent.