Thursday, 14th November 2024

STRANGE: Canada gets first patient of "climate-change", woman hospitalized

In an unusual case, a woman from Canada was diagnosed with "climate change" and had trouble breathing. She is currently hospitalized.

Wednesday, 10th November 2021

Strange: Woman in Canada diagnosed hospitalized with "climate change" (Photograph only for reference purposes)
In an unusual case, a woman from Canada was diagnosed with "climate change" and had trouble breathing. As per doctors, she is the first patient to suffer from such a problem. According to the Times Colonist, a Canadian day, the patient is a senior citizen of the Canada British Columbia province and has faced an underground condition of asthma. Doctors who examined the patient claimed that the patient's health condition deteriorated due to heatwaves and poor air quality. Dr Kyle Merritt, the consulting physician, said that for the first time in over ten years, he used the term "climate change" when writing the patient's diagnosis. "She has diabetes. She has some heart failure. She lives in a trailer without air conditioning. All of her health problems have deteriorated. And she's really struggling to stay hydrated," Merritt was quoted as saying in the release. The doctor also stated that there is a strong need to identify and sort out the primary cause rather than just treating the patients' symptoms. Reports also suggest that the female patient is living in a trailer and is in her 70s. She was diagnosed with this unusual problem shortly after the heat waves hit the country, which worsened her poor health. Through this new invention and result, Dr Merritt encouraged several local physicians in the region to come together and launch an initiative called Doctors and Nurses for Planetary Health. Earlier this year in June, Canada experienced one of the worst heat waves ever since it was caused by smog due to forest fires that covered the sky. Among the many provinces, British Columbia experienced a terrible heat wave, which eventually caused 500 deaths, as per reports.