'Very high' mortality rate due to extreme heat in Mali
Mali experienced and exceptional heatwave at the start of April, with temperatures soaring above 45 degrees Celsius, leading to dozens of deaths. “There is a very, very high mortality rate linked to dehydration and fever," says Dr Ibrahim Fall, head of health centre located in Mali's capital Bamako.
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00:00With our weather model, it will show us that there is dust in Chad right now, and in red
00:22the areas where it is raining right now in Africa, and you can see that in Mali it is not raining.
00:27All of this is related to climate change.
00:30Because, as the weather and other structures have been saying for some time, climate change is a reality.
00:37And it manifests itself through several extreme phenomena.
00:43Namely, it can be floods, it can be very violent winds, it can also be heatwaves.
00:58We have seen a lot of cases this year, especially in Rioumont,
01:03where people come with severe fever and dehydration.
01:07So we have to socialize them.
01:09And most of the time, there is a very high mortality rate due to this dehydration and this fever.
01:28The weather is not good.
01:33The weather is not good.
01:39The weather is not good.