Temperature to soar as high as 48 degrees in Yemen

SANA'A, June 21 (Saba) - Temperatures in Yemen are expected to soar
to 48 degrees Celsius within the next two days, prompting the
authorities to warn the elderly people and children in coastal areas
to take necessary measures to void bad results.

The provinces of Aden, Hodeida and Hadramout are said to be the most
hit by soaring heat wave.

Temperatures remained between 36-40 degrees Celsius amid a stifling
heat wave hitting the country for the last few months.

Almost ten days ago, two people died and others suffered fainting as
a result of a second worst heat wave in the last three years to hit
Yemen's port city of Aden.

One of the dead was an elderly man aged 50, who had been struggling
in the high temperature. A second man also died in the district of
Sheikh Othman when the heat helped his health condition worsen,
after he had been suffering blood pressure.

Local sources said many people, most of them women, suffered
fainting after the temperature soared in noon in most of the city
areas.

Power problems such as persistent cut-offs helped worsen the
situation in Aden leading to discomfort among the patients in Aden,
the city which is witnessing a high temperature associated with a
high humidity.

The electrical current is cut off five times a day, affecting those
people with dangerous diseases.

Even though the electrical current is available, air conditioners
have become insufficient to ease the heat wave amid high prices of
electricity.

Two years ago, a strong heat wave hit the city, claiming the lives
of 24 people, most of them were elderly people.

The deaths took place in two days.

Medical officials in the city say the city hospitals receive large
numbers of patients in summer when the temperature scores highs.

Most of the affected are those with diabetics, blood pressure and
thyroid, because they are easily affected by the change of the
temperature.

On reasons behind the high temperatures, a geologist says that all
human activities including, a random filling up of beaches and
ongoing project construction at the beaches and empty areas which
represent a suitable pass for air as well as ongoing operations of
mountain digging, lead to the heat waves.