Due to several weeks of gradual rising temperature all over the country, public in general and all other living beings are suffering a lot.

The met office on Friday recorded the season's highest temperature at 41.2 degrees Celsius and the mercury level remains around 40 degrees in most of the days in last one weeks. Sufferings of the people, especially day labourers, rickshaw and van pullers, construction workers, masons and street vendors have turned miserable due to daylong hot spell without respite. With no traces of rainfall, people are being forced to remain indoors and are not daring to come out except for emergencies during daytime. As a result, an adverse impact on trade and business is also being noticed across the country.

The situation is worst in the Barind tract comprising 25 upazilas of Rajshahi, Naogaon and Chapainawabganj and thereby is affecting the public health. Besides farming and pisciculture, the sweltering heat is also severely affecting the people of other professions, especially labourers. Meanwhile, specialists and doctors advised the people to drink enough water, particularly during the daytime. Quoting Dr Mahbubur Rahman Khan, associate professor of medicine at Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital, government news agency BSS said children, newborns, elderly people and cardiac patients suffer the most in such weather. The sufferings of the elderly people, children and the students knew no bounds.