Heat hits SLP: 10 deaths reported and 78 cases treated due to high temperatures

MEXICO CITY (apro).- A total of 10 deaths and 78 people who required medical attention due to high temperatures in San Luis Potosí, was reported this Friday by the head of Sanitary Jurisdiction V, Gustavo Macías del Río.

In an interview for Pulso Online, the official explained that the affected people are being treated at the General Hospital of Valles, the hospitals of Tamuín, Ébano, El Naranjo, Tamasopo and at the IMSS. There are six people in serious condition.

According to Macías, in the General Hospital there were five deaths – four men and one woman -, and in the IMSS in Ciudad Valles there were four deaths.

The temperature in the entity has reached 49 degrees, with a sensation of 55 degrees.

Ssa figures

In the middle of the second heat wave – which began on May 3 – the federal Ministry of Health (Ssa) announced that there were seven deaths due to heat stroke in the country, as well as 337 accumulated cases of health damage due to natural temperatures. extreme.

The Ssa figures are accumulated since the beginning of the 2024 heat season, which began on March 17 and will end on October 5, a period in which there will be five heat waves. The first was between April 13 and 21.

According to data from the secretariat itself reviewed by Proceso, the current year represents a historical record in terms of deaths due to heat stroke and cases treated, since in 2023, during Epidemiological Week 18, the country registered three deaths and 267 cases .

Deaths and cases due to heat stroke during Epidemiological Week 18:

• 2024: 7 deaths and 337 cases
• 2023: 3 y 267
• 2022: 2 y 148
• 2021: 2 y 89
• 2020: 0 y 82

Tabasco has been the hardest hit entity, with four deaths; followed by Oaxaca, with two, and Chiapas with one death.

Likewise, the state most affected by cases treated for heat stroke is Tabasco, with 105; then Chiapas (35), Jalisco (28), Morelos (20) and Veracruz (20). The damage to health has been due to heat stroke, dehydration and burns.

Process published that the 2023 hot season in Mexico, which had three waves, caused the death of 421 people, a figure ten times higher than the previous year, and worse still, 47 times more deadly compared to the same period in 2013.

The 2023 heat season, which began on March 12 and ended on October 7, also resulted in a tripling of cases treated for heat stroke, dehydration and burns throughout the country, increasing from 1,110 cases in 2022. to four thousand 306 in 2023.