Noida- Mercury in the city shoots up with high cases of heat stroke and dehydration

Noida is seeing the highest temperature with the mercury reaching the 41-degree mark. Medical centres in Ghaziabad and Noida have reported around 150-200 cases of diarrhoea, dehydration along with other health-related problems in the past 17 days. District hospital OPDs are full of patients who have heat-related problems. Dr Rajpal Singh of MMG Hospital stated- “Heat-related cases make up about 20-25% of the 1,000-odd patients visiting the OPD every day. Microbial activities escalate in hot and humid weather and can cause severe gastroenteritis and stomach infections”.

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Doctors are instructing the public to wear full-sleeve clothes while going out to limit sun exposure and drink at least 2-2.5 litres of fluid every day to save themselves from heat stroke. “Majority of the patients visiting the OPDs have symptoms like stomach ache, vomiting and fever. Counsellors have also been deployed at the hospitals to educate people about preventive measures,” a local physician at the district hospital in Sector-30. 

Currently, hospitals are seeing many patients i.e. 100 patients every day related to heat illness. 

The State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA), even are taking preemptive measures to handle heat stroke problems in the city including in offices, industries and RWAs. In this, AC rooms will be opened in every government facility as well as community centres. In hospitals, if rooms are not air-conditioned then proper arrangements for coolers and fans will be done. RWSs has been instructed to make community centres ready with water coolers and facilities. Industries, where work is done through manual labour, have been instructed to arrange clean water supplies, coolers and fans to help labour to cool down. Additionally, owners of factories have been instructed to avoid taking work from labours from 12 pm to 4 pm.