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death of at least 68 people in recent days in northern India have sparked controversy in the country after the deaths were initially official attributed to abnormal heatstatements
death of at least 68 people in recent days in northern India have sparked controversy in the country after the deaths were initially official attributed to abnormal heatstatements that the authorities question.
“Over the past 24 hours 14 people died from various diseases“, he confirmed to the newspaper on Monday. indian express Dr. Jayant Kumar, chief medical officer of the Balliya district in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, added to the 54 deaths reported so far.
Kumar noted that “the temperature is high, so the number of patients has increased. A total of 178 patients were admitted to the district hospital on Sunday.”
Controversy surrounding the cause of death began over the weekend after Kumar’s subordinate Chief Medical Superintendent Diwakar Singh told the media that They were due to a heat wave that hit Northern India. Temperatures of 40 to 45 degrees have been recorded in the Balia region in recent days.
But Singh’s statements were sentenced by Deputy Head of Government of Uttar PradeshBrajesh Pathak, in statements for several Indian TV channels such as Zee News.
singh was removed from office over the weekend, confirmed EFE His replacement S.K. Yadav declined to comment on the event, and authorities announced an investigation into the cause of death.
“An investigative commission has been formed, which yesterday visited the district hospital and met with the patients. Water, blood and urine samples were taken“, – said the head physician of Ballia before the theory that the deaths were due tor causes independent of high temperatures.
One of the doctors who conducted the investigation, A.K. Singh assured indian express What symptoms other than fever and fainting usually caused by heat waves.
Quick transfer of an officer and doubts expressed by the authoritiesin the state where Prime Minister Narendra Modi formed the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), drew criticism from the opposition.
“So many people died in Uttar Pradesh because of the lack of care from the state government. They were supposed to warn people about a heat wave, not a single district hospital has been built in the last six years,” Samajwadi opposition party leader and former head of the regional government Akilesh Yadav told the media.
Extreme weather events such as heat waves also have a direct impact on people’s health and according to a study published in 2021 by Indian meteorologists, Over the past 50 years, these periods of extreme temperatures have killed more than 17,000 people.
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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