The heat wave claimed the lives of 36 people in Mexico

The heat wave which hits Mexico it broke 36 deaths in the northern state The new lionreported this Wednesday the Secretary of Health entities.

At the press conference, the head of the agency, Moroccan pink soulhe explained that the deaths “heat stroke” add 25 men and 11 womenmost of which had comorbidities such as diabetes and hypertension.

“The number of deaths that we have reported in our surveillance system in the state is 36,” he said.

He shared that adults over 60 years old, as well as people who have some kind of comorbidity, are in the highest risk group.

Marroquín revealed that the official figure he manages Secretary of Health It is based on death certificates in which the cause of death was determined to be “heatstroke”.

UNUSUAL BEHAVIOR IN THE NUMBER OF DEADLY

The government official did not explain the unusual behavior in the number of deaths in the entity he detained Forensic Medicine Service (Semefo) States.

On Monday, the deputy prosecutor in Office of the Attorney General of Nuevo León reported an “atypical phenomenon” of death in the entity due to 70 corpses that were received in Semefo weekly, the amount was first raised to 130 and then yes 250precisely in the 15 hottest days when temperatures up to 45 degrees.

Also an official person Civil registration convinced that it exists 850 death certificates related to death from “heat stroke”. However, the state government in a statement denied that figure and noted that it was not within the authority of that person to provide that information.

It is true that in objects on University Hospital Where Semefo is, there are people who testified that they have been waiting for three or four days for the bodies of their loved ones, which were not delivered to them due to the overload of work in that place.

It was even mentioned that a cooler had already arrived for corpses for which there is no more room in the building. The situation in Semef is atypical and has not been experienced since the covid-19 pandemic.

Autopsy of the deceased, transferred to Forensic Medical Serviceshowed that the majority died of acute myocardial infarction.