Achi news desk-
Heat wave alert
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The rise in temperatures as a result of climate change is becoming a global problem. Due to fever, along with heat stroke, chronic diseases also began to affect, because of which the deaths also increase.
According to experts from the Program on Climate Change and Human Health (NPCCHH), there was an 85 percent increase in heat-related deaths between 2013 and 2022 compared to 1991 to 2000. If the Earth continues to warm like this and the maximum temperature continues to rise, then in 2050, cases Deaths due to heat around the world are expected to increase by about 370%. For the first time in Israel, guidelines were prepared for the autopsy of deaths due to fever. The central government wanted to share it with all the states and give it to every hospital. In the instructions issued to all medical colleges and district hospitals, it is said that there is no need for a postmortem of those who die of fever but that hyperthermia must be recorded on the death certificate.
Heart attack cases may increase by 2.6 percent due to increased mercury
Apart from that, citing a study from Western America, it is also said that if the normal daily temperature increases by 4.7 degrees Celsius in the summer season, then the cases of cardiovascular i.e. heart attack can increase by about 2.6%. Dilip Mblankar, director of the Indian Institute of Public Health, says that the system related to births and deaths in the country is not completely organized because of which cases of death due to heat or cold are not identified correctly. These are recorded in cases of excess deaths.
North India’s first heat stroke room
Roli Singh, Additional Director, Union Ministry of Health, has set up North India’s first heatstroke room at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi. Heatstroke cases coming to the hospital will be brought here directly from the emergency and they will be kept in cold water for some time because every minute considered at the beginning of cooling.
