A doctor in Canada’s British Columbia province has diagnosed a patient who came in with breathing trouble as suffering from climate change, possibly the first such case recorded to date. The patient was struggling to breathe after the recent wildfires in Kootenays worsened her asthma, reported Canada’s Times Colonist newspaper. The Kootenays region in the British Columbia province has seen over One Thousand Six Hundred wildfires this fiscal year, according to the BC Wildfire Service website. Dr. Kyle Merritt, who heads the Kootenay Lake Hospital’s emergency room department, had seen numerous cases where the record heatwave exacerbated existing health issues like diabetes, heart failure, and so on. However, linking mortality or severe illness to heatwaves or air pollution is a struggle. Faced with treating the surging cases of heat illness that the physician had seen only in medical school, Doctor Merritt reached out to other medical professionals in neighboring provinces of Prince George, Kamloops, Vancouver, and Victoria, says the report. Since June, hundreds of people have died in a heatwave that broke Canadian heat records.
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