To help traffic police stay cool while performing their job in the extreme heat , the city traffic police were given vests.
As part of its corporate social responsibility, Asian Institute of Nephrology offered the police the vests that can be dipped into water and worn. The make of the vest is such that it can keep the body’s temperature down by 6 to 12 degrees Celsius for as long as five hours even when a police official is working outdoors in the summer sun, said the institute.
Day temperature over the last one week remained over 42 degrees even as reports of deaths due to heatwave from multiple districts have reached the State government. An inquiry into more than 170 deaths is under way to determine if they were indeed caused by heat. On Monday, the city recorded a maximum temperature of 42 degrees while Ramagundam and Nizamabad recorded the highest maximum temperature of 45 degrees.
Meanwhile, a family in Shah Ali Banda said their 12-year-old son had died due to intense heat. The boy’s uncle, Mohammed Sultan, said that the boy had gone cycling on Sunday afternoon and returned home complaining of uneasiness. The boy, Mohammed Adnan, was then rushed to a hospital where he died on Monday morning. All reports of heat deaths are examined by the State government before they are declared as having been caused by heat.
