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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Amrit Dhillon in Delhi

‘Time is life’: the Delhi clinic treating the city’s heat stroke victims

A farm labourer wipes sweat from her face as she harvests vegetables in Yamuna floodplains in New Delhi, India.
A farm labourer wipes sweat from her face as she harvests vegetables in Yamuna floodplains in New Delhi, India. A newly created heatstroke unit in a Delhi hospital has seen more than 50 heatstroke victims in the past week. Photograph: Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters

As Dr Amlendu Yadav flicks the switch, the large pipe starts gushing water while he shovels ice into the tub. In two minutes, it is full, ready for the next patient in his newly created emergency heatstroke unit at Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in the Indian capital.

The point, he explains, is speed. Heatstroke patients need to be dunked in the bath the moment they arrive at the hospital if they are to stand a chance of surviving.

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