Authorities cancel leave of medical personnel and provide additional hospital beds in emergency ward to accommodate the influx of patients
At least 96 people died in two of India’s most populous states over the last several days, officials said Sunday, with swaths of the country reeling from a sweltering heat wave.
S. K. Yadav, a medical officer in Ballia, said in the past three days, some 300 patients were admitted to the district hospital for various ailments aggravated by heat. R.S. Pathak, a resident of Ballia who lost his father on Saturday, said that he witnessed an increased flow of patients at the hospital’s emergency ward while attending to his father.
The IMD issued an alert saying heat wave conditions would last until June 19 in parts of Uttar Pradesh.
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