Health Minister Samant Lal Sen. Collected
Health Minister Samant Lal Sen has been ordered all hospitals across the country to be prepared to deal with adverse conditions amid the intense heat wave, and at the same time, he ordered hospitals not to admit non-emergency patients.
The minister gave this instruction in a virtual meeting with hospital directors and civil surgeons from all over the country at the secretariat on Sunday.
At least three people died reportedly from heatstroke earlier in the day, taking the number of such fatalities to five in two days of record-breaking heat.
“Hot weather brings the risk of heatstroke. We’ve made guidelines for hospitals to manage these patients,” Sen said in a media briefing after the meeting.
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