The bakery workers in Luxor challenge the heat of the weather to serve fasting

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In the middle of the high weather in the province of Luxor and the disappearance of citizens from the streets after the warnings of the Meteorological Service, bakery workers since the morning, to be in their bakeries to provide bread for fasting in the month of Ramadan.

Ahmed Sobhi, owner of a bakery in Al Madinah Al Munawwarah Street, said that all the workers in the bakery have been working since morning to bake the required quantity for the citizens during the holy month of Ramadan to serve the people despite the heat of the weather.

In the same context, Dr. Abdel-Gawad, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health in Luxor, announced the lifting of the maximum preparedness to face the current heat wave and the following waves expected to occur during the summer. The Directorate confirmed the readiness of hospitals to receive heat stress cases. She suffers from thermal exhaustion or sun stroke and treatment immediately.

The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health – in a press release – the readiness of all hospitals, where there are air-conditioned rooms to receive all hospitals and with a trained nurse to deal with such cases, and was confirmed the availability of heat reducers and solutions and other methods of treatment of heat stress and sun strikes, The directors of the health departments should equip all the family medicine units at the governorate level with the readiness to receive any case throughout the day.

The Department of Culture, Health, Information and Population Education was instructed to interact with citizens and to give educational seminars and advised them to wear light and loose cotton clothes with light colors and to stay away from artificial fibers and not to be exposed to direct sunlight especially in the afternoon, with drinking large amounts of liquids and presence in places where air conditioning or fans Patients with diabetes, stress and other chronic diseases should consult a physician or outpatient in hospitals and health units.

Dr. Christine Gerges, Director of the Department of Health Information in Luxor, confirmed that heat stress occurs as a result of the body's loss of a large amount of fluids and salts when exposed to hot air for a long time, especially when exerting hard work, which leads to disturbance in the functions of the body. The general symptoms of the cases are headache, Balance and nausea with severe sweating, frost and coldness in the body, contraction and acute muscle pain, general weakness with pulse speed, breathing, vision disorder, thirst sensation with low blood pressure.

The director of media, on avoiding the severe heat wave sweeping the country, noting that we should stay away from some foods as much as possible in hot weather days, including meat, fish, eggs, shrimp and seafood in general because it increases the heat of the body, which may cause stomach disorders with hyperthermia And not to eat grilled foods in general under high temperatures because they are working on warming the body.