Canada records world’s first patient diagnosed with ‘climate change’

Tuesday, 9 November 2021Newsdesk

Since June, hundreds of people have died in a heat wave that broke Canadian heat records.

New Delhi, 09 November 2021

A doctor in Canada’s British Columbia province has diagnosed a patient who came in with breathing trouble as suffering from “climate change”, possibly the first such case recorded till date. The patient was struggling to breathe after the recent wildfires in Kootenays worsened her asthma, reported Canada’s Times Colonist newspaper. The Kootenays region in the British Columbia province has seen over 1,600 wildfires this fiscal year, according to the BC Wildfire Service website.

Source - The Indian Express