CDMX.- Given the high temperatures that are registered in these months in most of the country, the Senate of the Republic requested the Ministry of Public Education (SEP) y Ministry of Health (SS) apply preventive measures in basic and upper secondary schools to protect students from possible “heat strokes” and dehydration.
Due to the increase in temperature and high levels of ultraviolet rays at this time of year, Senator Israel Zamora Guzmán of the Green Ecologist Party of Mexicopresented a point of agreement for both agencies to carry out information campaigns on the effects caused by exposure to high temperatures and the measures for its prevention in vulnerable populations.
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The senator said that the National Meteorological Service estimated that four heat waves are forecast in this period, one in March, another in April and two in May, so it is important to take preventive measures.
In the same document, the legislator requests that Civil Protection of each of the federal entities implement information programs on the risk of exposure to high temperatures, as well as first aid to deal with cases of heat stroke.
During the previous year -he explained- temperatures of more than 45°C were registered in Mexico, according to the Ministry of the Environment and the National Water Commission, From March to the end of May, four heat waves were generated that hit municipalities in the state of San Luis Potosí, Guerrero, Sonora, Chihuahua, Baja California Sur and Sinaloa.
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In relation to the heat wave, which took place from June 21 to mid-August 2022, temperatures above 37°C were recorded and affected Campeche, Hidalgo, Michoacán, Tamaulipas, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Querétaro, Tabasco, Yucatán Veracruz, Colima, Morelos Nuevo León, State of Mexico and Mexico City.
According to the Ministry of Health, from March to July 2022, more than eight hundred cases of heat stroke, dehydration, and burns were registered throughout the country. Similarly, the death of nine people due to hot weather was recorded.