RANGPUR, Jan 02, 2019 (BSS) – The northernmost sub-Himalayan town of
Tentulia in Panchagarh district today 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 intense
miseries.
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 today.
Officials at Rangpur Met Office said the country’s lowest temperature of
4.9 degrees Celsius was recorded today 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 yesterday’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 today
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 the
Ministry 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 today.