This heat wave It killed 36 people in the northern state of Nuevo León that hit Mexico, reported this Wednesday by the organization’s Ministry of Health. At a press conference, the agency’s head, Alma Rosa Marroquín, explained that the majority of deaths due to “heat stroke” were 25 men and 11 women with co-morbidities such as diabetes and hypertension. “The number of deaths we’ve reported to our state surveillance system is 36,” she said. He shared that the group at greatest risk are adults over the age of 60 and people with some form of comorbidity.
Marroquín explained that the official figure, handled by the Ministry of Health, was based on death certificates in which the cause of death was determined as “heat stroke”.
unusual behavior
State official did not comment. unusual behavior in death count The organization holding the State Forensic Medicine Institute (Semefo) collapsed.
On Monday, the deputy prosecutor of the Nuevo León Prosecutor General’s Office reported an “unusual case of death” within the party due to the 70 bodies retrieved weekly in Semefo. The hottest days with temperatures reaching 45 degrees. An official from the Civil Registry also assured him that he was there. 850 death certificates for deaths from “heat stroke”. However, the state government denied the figure in a statement and stated that it was not within the authority of that person to provide this information.
The truth is that there are people who say that they have been waiting for the bodies of their loved ones who were not delivered to them for three or four days in the facilities of the University Hospital where Semefo is located. workload in this place. It was even said that a refrigerated truck had arrived for the bodies that were no longer in the building. The situation at Semefo is unusual and has not been experienced since the covid-19 pandemic.
The autopsy of the deceased, who was referred to the Forensic Medicine Service, showed that the vast majority died of acute myocardial infarction.