Ottawa: A Canadian woman has reportedly become the world's first patient to suffer from climate change. This woman is having trouble breathing. Doctors treating the patient have said that heat and poor air quality is responsible for the patient's deteriorating health. The patient is a senior citizen of the British Columbia province of Canada and suffers from severe asthma.
According to media reports, consulting doctor Kelly Marit, who is treating the woman, used the term climate change while writing the patient's diagnosis for the first time in 10 years. Canada suffered the worst heatwave ever in June as it struggled with the coronavirus epidemic. The wildfire then caused smog to spread all around. This made the air even more poisonous. Female patients suffering from climate change live in a trailer and is over 70 years old. She had been having a lot of breathing problems since Loo, after which she was undergoing treatment by Dr Merritt's.
Dr Merritt said, 'The patient has diabetes. She also has some heart disease. She lives in a trailer without air conditioning. So the heat and flame have adversely affected her health. She's really struggling to stay hydrated.' Dr Merritt says that instead of treating only patients' symptoms, there is a great need to identify and solve underlying causes. The report said people in British Columbia faced terrible heatwave conditions in June. It also took around 500 lives. Air quality has deteriorated 40 times more in the next 2-3 months.
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