A brutal heat wave is causing hospitalizations for heat-related illnesses, an increasingly common threat as summers get warmer.
New York City hospitals are seeing a surge in patients with heat-related symptoms, reports Caroline Lewis for Gothamist.“And not all hospitals are providing the relief patients might expect. Brookdale Hospital Medical Center patients and staff were suffering earlier in the week after the Central Brooklyn hospital’s air conditioning system failed, PIX11 reported.”
Temperatures in Central Park reached 99 degrees on Tuesday, when 112 people went to emergency rooms for heat-related illnesses. “These figures don’t include patients who showed up with other health conditions that may have been exacerbated by the heat.”
Extreme heat is becoming an increasingly prevalent public health threat as each year brings hotter summers and more high heat days.
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