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Heat wave claims 7 more: 100 hospitalised in city

Star Report
The ongoing heat wave claimed seven more lives across the country yesterday, raising the death toll to 18.
Of the casualties, two were in Khulna, two in Nilphamari, and one each in Gopalganj, Bagerhat and Barisal districts, according to the UNB news agency.
Earlier on Monday, 11 people died from heat-stroke across the country.
Meanwhile, some 100 people, including children, were admitted to
different hospitals in the city yesterday due to acute exhaustion and heat-stroke.
At the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, more than 20 people including children were got admitted due to heat stroke, dehydration and vomiting.
More than two dozens of children -- mostly suffering from diarrhoea, acute dehydration and vomiting -- were hospitalised at the Mitford General Hospital, Shaheed Suhrawardy Hospital and Nibedita Private Children's Hospital.
At Dhaka Shishu Hospital, about
50 children, aged between eight months and five years, were hospitalised owing to dehydration, heatstroke and vomiting.
Our special correspondent adds: The weather however improved a little bit yesterday with rains breaking out in Mymensingh and Sylhet.
The capital also witnessed short drizzle, which helped cool the oppressive heat later in the evening. Humidity also came down to 49 per cent from 77 per cent in the morning.
But the meteorological department forecasts no relief today as there would not be any appreciable change in the day's temperature.
Yesterday, the highest temperature was recorded in Jessore at 41 degrees Celsius. The lowest temperature of 21 degrees Celsius was recorded in Sylhet.
But the Dhaka city, which remained under a canopy of clouds, had traces of shower totalling a negligible 0.5 mm. It, however, failed to make any dent on the sultry weather.
Citizens continued to suffer under the twin onslaught of heat wave and frequent power failures.
The capital recorded a maximum of 35.4 degrees Celsius and a minimum of 28.8 degrees Celsius yesterday.
The met office forecasts that rainfall may increase gradually
during the next two days, which may cool down the weather.
Doctors said during exercise or work in a hot environment the body tries to cool off by sweating and dilating the skin's blood vessels. Dilation of the blood vessels brings blood to the skin surface and increases the rate of radiation of heat from the body.
"When these mechanisms are overwhelmed and the body is no longer able to put up with the excessive heat, heat exhaustion comes into play," explained Prof. Mahmudur Rahman, a doctor of medicine.
He also said when body temperature exceeds 39-40 degrees Celsius, a person suffers hyperecsia-- as the body cannot cope with heat any longer-- and collapses.