With extremely high temperatures hitting vast areas of the country; dehydration, hyperthermia, heatstroke or heat exhaustion can pose a very real threat, particularly to vulnerable children and elderly individuals. This is a warning from emergency service providers in South Africa.
“It has been a particularly hot summer holiday with Netcare 911 having to attend to a number of heat exhaustion and heat stroke cases across much of the country", the medical services provider told Health24.