Roughly 5, 000 people have been hospitalized over the past 24 hours for diarrhea, skin diseases, and snake bites, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.
Some districts were flooded by heavy rain on Tuesday in the capital, Dhaka, causing huge traffic jams as vehicles raced through waterlogged streets. The roads were knee-deep in waist-high water.
Crops worth 33.5 billion taka ( US$ 282 million ) have been damaged, affecting more than 1.4 million farmers, according to a preliminary assessment by the agriculture ministry.
According to a 2015 study from the World Bank Institute, 3.5 million people in South Asia were afoul of monthly valley flooding, which has only increased in recent years as a result of climate change.
The United Nations Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ) has said two million children are at risk from Bangladesh’s most severe flooding in three decades. UNICEF has made an urgent appeal for$ 35 million to provide necessary products to those affected.
” Year after year, the lives of millions of children in Bangladesh are being devastated by storms, heatwaves and storms. Climate change is obviously altering children’s life”, said Emma Brigham, Deputy Representative of UNICEF Bangladesh.