Some doctors are convinced there’s a link between the punishing temperatures and the deaths. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW DELHI – An unusually intense heatwave has swept across northern India in the last four days, with some hospitals in the state of Uttar Pradesh recording a higher-than-usual number of deaths.
He told the Press Trust of India, a news agency, that on average, eight people usually die per day. “Most of these are natural deaths,” he told The Times in a phone interview, “most of the dead being elderly people suffering from different ailments like diabetes.” Dr. Singh’s replacement, Dr. S.K. Yadav, took a more cautious line on Sunday, saying, “Elderly patients with comorbidities like hypertension and diabetes are expiring because of heat.”
The heat in this part of India has been hovering around the critical “wet-bulb temperature”, the threshold beyond which the human body cannot cool itself to a survivable point by perspiration, defined as 35 degrees Celsius , adjusted for 100 per cent humidity.The wet-bulb reading in Ballia on Saturday reached 34.15 degrees Celsius.
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