Flood Casualties

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:The Daily Star: Internet Edition

The District Fisheries Department of Tangail estimated the total damage inflicted on the fish farming industry of the district by the flood at Tk 9.84 crore.

According to the fisheries department statistics, the flood damaged 8,029 water bodies occupying 920 hectares of land space in 12 upazilas.

The most affected upazila is the district headquarters with 1,378 water bodies damaged occupying 95.77 hectares of land, in Gopalpur 815 ponds were damaged on 65.40 hectares of land, in Bhuapur 1,111 on 150.69 hectares, in Mirzapur 212 on 34.43 hectares, in Nagarpur 508 on 78.68 hectares, in Delduar 559 on 52.74 hectares, in Sakhipur 139 on 24.37 hectares, in Basail 510 on 82.35 hectares, in Ghatail 542 on 45.96 hectares, in Dhanbari 1,000 on 55.86 hectares, in Kalihati 1,253 on 231.96 hectares, and in Madhupur upazila two water bodies on 4.45 hectares of land.

The damage to the fish cultivating water bodies in Sadar upazila is estimated at Tk 1.42 crore, the statistics said.

Besides, structural damage inflicted on the water bodies by the flood in every upazila of the district is estimated at Tk 2.11 crore, while damage to the fish resources is estimated at Tk 7.73 crore.

Mohammad Ashraf Uddin, fish survey officer in Tangail, told The Daily Star that they are making a list of affected fish farmers in the district as part of their plan to compensate them.

"The fish farmers will get only technical support if the government does not provide financial help," he added.

couple this with already existing problems such as this.

The flood-related death toll went up to 702 yesterday since July 30 this year and most of the casualties were caused by drowning in floodwaters.

A number of rivers saw rise in water levels yesterday but experts do not expect more flooding in the country.

A total of 619 people were drowned including eight yesterday due to the floods which inundated a huge portion of the low-lying lands of the country. Snakebites caused death to 48 people while 15 people died of respiratory tract infections (RTI) and 13 of diarrhoea.

A number of water-borne diseases including diarrhoea, RTI, conjunctivitis and skin diseases also spread across the flood-hit areas as soon as the floodwater receded. A total of 2,379 people were infected with diarrhoea yesterday raising the total number to 85,555 since July 30.

The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases and Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), the lone specialised centre for diarrhoea, had around 400 new patients admitted between midnight to 5:00pm yesterday.

"It shows a sharp decline in the number of diarrhoea patients which was high in the first week of this month," Scientist and Head of Shorter Stay Unit of ICDDR,B Shahadat Hussain told The Daily Star. However, the number of people being infected with other water-borne diseases is yet to show significant fall.

According to the Directorate General of Health Services control room report, around 717 people were infected with RTI across the flood-hit areas of the country raising the number to 22,808 since July 30.

Meanwhile, the number of patients with skin diseases stood at 23,574 with further 655 new infections yesterday and the number of patients infected with conjunctivitis went up to 7,422 with 426 newly infected yesterday.

:The Daily Star: Internet Edition

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