03:14Patients crowded into Sadar Hospital in Feni on Wednesday, with some reporting symptoms of diarrhoea and other common waterborne illnesses following massive flooding across Bangladesh late last month.
"My baby has a cough and diarrhoea and has been sick for four days now," one local shared.
Footage shows men, women and children lying on mattresses on the floor and hospital beds as the number of patients overwhelmed the local treatment facility.
"My patient is having diarrhoea and vomiting," one medic explained, while
another local woman reported that it had taken a while to be seen by a doctor. Both added that some medicines were not available inside the facility and needed to be brought in from other sites.
It comes after more than 300,000 people were evacuated in Feni in late August as floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains killed at least 71 people with a reported 5.2 million affected across 11 districts in the country.
Bangladesh is considered extremely vulnerable to the effects of extreme weather and rising sea levels, with frequent landslides and heavy flooding in low-lying areas, in a country with hundreds of rivers and many major Himalayan river deltas.
'My baby has been sick for four days' - Feni hospital inundated as fears grow of waterborne diseases from Bangladesh floodwaters
Patients crowded into Sadar Hospital in Feni on Wednesday, with some reporting symptoms of diarrhoea and other common waterborne illnesses following massive flooding across Bangladesh late last month.
"My baby has a cough and diarrhoea and has been sick for four days now," one local shared.
Footage shows men, women and children lying on mattresses on the floor and hospital beds as the number of patients overwhelmed the local treatment facility.
"My patient is having diarrhoea and vomiting," one medic explained, while
another local woman reported that it had taken a while to be seen by a doctor. Both added that some medicines were not available inside the facility and needed to be brought in from other sites.
It comes after more than 300,000 people were evacuated in Feni in late August as floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains killed at least 71 people with a reported 5.2 million affected across 11 districts in the country.
Bangladesh is considered extremely vulnerable to the effects of extreme weather and rising sea levels, with frequent landslides and heavy flooding in low-lying areas, in a country with hundreds of rivers and many major Himalayan river deltas.
Patients crowded into Sadar Hospital in Feni on Wednesday, with some reporting symptoms of diarrhoea and other common waterborne illnesses following massive flooding across Bangladesh late last month.
"My baby has a cough and diarrhoea and has been sick for four days now," one local shared.
Footage shows men, women and children lying on mattresses on the floor and hospital beds as the number of patients overwhelmed the local treatment facility.
"My patient is having diarrhoea and vomiting," one medic explained, while
another local woman reported that it had taken a while to be seen by a doctor. Both added that some medicines were not available inside the facility and needed to be brought in from other sites.
It comes after more than 300,000 people were evacuated in Feni in late August as floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains killed at least 71 people with a reported 5.2 million affected across 11 districts in the country.
Bangladesh is considered extremely vulnerable to the effects of extreme weather and rising sea levels, with frequent landslides and heavy flooding in low-lying areas, in a country with hundreds of rivers and many major Himalayan river deltas.