Country suffers second death from heatstroke

Kuala Lumpur: Another person has died of heatstroke, raising to two the number of people who have succumbed to the condition so far this year due to the El Nino phenomenon. The latest fatality was 23-year-old Wan Mohd Aliff Faisal Wan Ismedi, a trainee of the basic course for young volunteer servicemen, who died on Tuesday at a polytechnic in Jitra, Kedah. The first death from heat stroke occurred last month.

A police trainee constable, Azizan Ayon, 23, died in Segamat, Johor.

Health Director-General Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said six other trainees of the young volunteer servicemen course also suffered heatstroke and were treated as outpatients. He also said the Health Ministry as of Wednesday recorded 200 cases related to the heat.

In Pahang, he said, there was a case of heatstroke also on Tuesday at an institution of higher learning which required intensive care while eight other people suffered from heat exhaustion following exposure to extreme heat during outdoor activities.

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"One case of heatstroke and two cases of heat exhaustion were treated at Sultan Ahmad Shah Hospital in Temerloh, five cases of heat exhaustion were referred to Jengka Hospital and one case was treated as outpatient at a clinic of an institution of higher learning in Pahang," he said.

All these cases were among the 200 cases related to heat treated at government health facilities - 52 of them heat cramps, 126, heat exhaustion and 22, heat stroke.

Dr Noor Hisham advised the people to postpone or restrict strenuous activities such as kayaking, cycling, marathon running and mountain climbing until after the heat wave had subsided.

"If outdoor activities cannot be avoided, they must shorten the period of such exercise or take longer rests and drink plenty of water," he said.

The public can find out about preventive measures and healthcare tips for the hot weather at the ministry website at www.infosihat.gov.my or www.moh.gov.my.

Meanwhile, Wan Mohd Aliff Faisal Wan Ismedi, 23, who died of heatstroke on Tuesday, was the eldest of five siblings and a student of Kolej Universiti Insaniah (KUIN).

His mother, Nortisayang alias Norhayati Wok, 41, who lives in Kuantan, said her son was offered a course at the Al-Azhar Universiti in Egypt in 2012 but she did not allow him to go because of the crisis there then.

"Later, he got an offer to study engineering at Universiti Malaysia Pahang but he was not interested in the course.

Finally, he chose to study at KUIN in Kuala Ketil (Kedah)," she said.

Nortisayang said she was informed of his death at 8.30pm on that day by the Regiment 513 Territorial Army Camp in Bukit Pinang which conducted the course.

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She said she last met her son during the Chinese New Year earlier this year when he returned to their home in Kuantan to take the car she had bought for him.

"He had never given the family any hardship, never asked for money. Once I telephoned him and during the conversation asked him what he had eaten. When he said he had taken rice with ketchup, I wept because he had kept silent about his (financial) difficulty," said Nortisayang.

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