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Friday, August 22, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 73
New Delhi: A day after BJP president Nitin Gadkari failed to handle the capital's scorching sun and fainted during his party's massive rally, medical experts are raining city schools and parents not to expose the children to the rising mercury.
Health experts are not surprised at the turn of events that saw Gadkari faint and they feel that considering the maximum temperature in the Capital has already crossed 40 degrees Celsius mark this month, it was but natural that he fainted.
Dr. Randeep Guleria, professor of medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) said that long exposure in extreme heat can result in several heat- related complications such as rashes, sunburn, cramps, exhaustion and even stroke. He said that one needs to be extra careful while venturing out in the heat, especially children.
Max Hospital's senior consultant paediatrics Dr Nitin Verma said that at home kids are well-protected but it's in schools where they mostly run the risk of getting exposed to the sun.
“We get lots of heat-related cases these days. Kids show typical symptoms such as fever, vomiting, slight loose motion,” he said.
Some of the city schools have already started taking the precautions.
Jyoti Bose, principal of Springdales School, Dhaula Kuan said that after 10.30 a.m., the school has stopped holding outdoor classes.
“The water counters, which earlier used to be outside, have now been put inside the corridor so that kids don't have to go out,” she said
Monica Tikoo, whose son Ishaan (3) studies at DPS Noida said that mornings are still fine but she starts start worrying when she think of the heat while bringing her son back from school.
“I take a huge water juice bottle with me and make him sip at regular intervals,” she said.
New Delhi: A day after BJP president Nitin Gadkari failed to handle the capital's scorching sun and fainted during his party's massive rally, medical experts are raining city schools and parents not to expose the children to the rising mercury. Health experts are not surprised at the turn of...
New Delhi: A day after BJP president Nitin Gadkari failed to handle the capital's scorching sun and fainted during his party's massive rally, medical experts are raining city schools and parents not to expose the children to the rising mercury.
Health experts are not surprised at the turn of events that saw Gadkari faint and they feel that considering the maximum temperature in the Capital has already crossed 40 degrees Celsius mark this month, it was but natural that he fainted.
Dr. Randeep Guleria, professor of medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) said that long exposure in extreme heat can result in several heat- related complications such as rashes, sunburn, cramps, exhaustion and even stroke. He said that one needs to be extra careful while venturing out in the heat, especially children.
Max Hospital's senior consultant paediatrics Dr Nitin Verma said that at home kids are well-protected but it's in schools where they mostly run the risk of getting exposed to the sun.
“We get lots of heat-related cases these days. Kids show typical symptoms such as fever, vomiting, slight loose motion,” he said.
Some of the city schools have already started taking the precautions.
Jyoti Bose, principal of Springdales School, Dhaula Kuan said that after 10.30 a.m., the school has stopped holding outdoor classes.
“The water counters, which earlier used to be outside, have now been put inside the corridor so that kids don't have to go out,” she said
Monica Tikoo, whose son Ishaan (3) studies at DPS Noida said that mornings are still fine but she starts start worrying when she think of the heat while bringing her son back from school.
“I take a huge water juice bottle with me and make him sip at regular intervals,” she said.
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