Cold wave affects life in Mahottari

Kathmandu: People in Mahottari district have been badly affected by the cold wave that continued for five days.

The decreasing temperature has taken a toll on people’s movement. Even livestock and crops are negatively impacted by declined temperatures, cold waves, fog and clouds.

According to Birendra Sharma from Jalewhwor-7, people’s movement is sparse at the district headquarters, Jaleshwor. The vehicles are also operated in fewer numbers. In the wake of rising cold, the sales of warm clothes have however surged in the market.

Likewise, a tea seller Umesh Sah from Jaleshwor municipality-1 informed that people throng tea shops to take hot soup and scalded tea.

Similarly, district health offices and hospital have witnessed dismal visit of patients. The locals began making fire to keep themselves warm. The decline in temperature has hit hard the children, elderly ones and women in postpartum.

RSS