A British Columbia emergency room doctor diagnosed a patient with ‘climate change’.
Doctor blames asthma suffered by patient on ‘climate change’ after historic heat wave killed 500 in Canada
- A British Columbia emergency room doctor diagnosed a patient with ‘climate change’ after believing his asthma worsened as a result of a historic heat wave
- He said his patient’s health was also exacerbated by poor air quality linked to forest fires in the province during the summer
- Nearly 500 Canadians were killed, mostly in British Columbia, during a five-day heat wave as temperatures surged past 121F
- Climate change will kill 250,000 per year between 2030 and 2050 from malnutrition, malaria, and heat stress, the World Health Organization says
By MICHELLE THOMPSON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
A Canadian doctor pointed to 'climate change’ as the cause for a patient’s asthma after finding that an unprecedented heat wave and poor air quality contributed to the person’s deteriorating health.
Dr. Kyle Merritt, who works at a Nelson, British Columbia hospital, said the environmental hazards prompted him to make his first ‘climate change’ clinical diagnosis after treating the patient who came in struggling to breathe.
‘If we’re not looking at the underlying cause, and we’re just treating the symptoms, we’re just gonna keep falling further and further behind,’ the emergency room doctor told Glacier Media.
‘It’s me trying to just… process what I’m seeing.’
