Rajasthan's Phalodi recorded highest temperature with 51 degree Celcius

Rajasthan Health minister Rajendra Rathore has directed health department officials to create awareness about prevention and treatment of sunstroke and to make arrangements for medical care to patients as the desert state reeled under recordbreaking temperatures on Thursday, with Phalodi town registering 51°C, the hottest ever in the state.

Rathore said children, elderly people, pregnant women, labourers working in the sun, travellers, sportspersons are prone to sunstroke.

He directed health institutions to keep a few beds in wards reserved for treating sunstroke patients, to put coolers and fans in wards, provide pure and cold drinking water for patients and their attendants, to keep emergency kit at the institutions ready having ORS and medicines to



treat sunstroke patients.

Director public health Dr BR Meena said sunstroke symptoms include heaviness and headache, excessive thirst and fatigue, nausea, dizziness, temperature rising up to 105 degrees F or more, no sweating, face getting red and dry and loss of consciousness.

The tourist destination of Jodhpur too broke its record with 48.8°C. The previous highest was 47.4°C on May 29, 1994.

Bikaner broke its 102-year-old record of 49.4°C recorded on May 28, 1914. It was 49.5°C on Thursday. The western fort city of Jaisalmer in the middle of Thar desert sizzled at 49°C, upstaging an eightyear-old record.

The capital city of Jaipur was slightly better than many other towns with maximum temperature being been 46.5°C.