India battles deaths from heat wave and brain disease

Indian women collect drinking water at a well. Picture: UMA SHANKAR MISHRA/ AFPThe Indian state of Bihar grappled on Monday with twin crises: with a brain virus potentially linked to litchis killing almost 100 children and extreme heat leaving 78 people dead.

Temperatures touched 50.3°C in the town of Churu in the northern desert state of Rajasthan recently, just below India’s record of 51°C. Heatstroke is usually caused by prolonged exposure to sun or from physical exertion in high temperatures. It has left more than 36 people dead in southern India in recent weeks.

Eighty children have now died in the state’s biggest government-run hospital — the Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital , in the city of Muzaffarpur — and 17 others at a private facility, health official Ashok Kumar Singh said.TV channels showed distraught parents sitting next to their children, several of whom were cramped on one bed. One parent heckled India’s health minister Harsh Vardhan as he took his entourage around the SKMCH for an inspection.

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