Aimee Walker
A doctor, from the Kootenay Medical Centre in British Columbia, has shared the reason why he’s diagnosed a patient with ‘climate change’.
Dr Kyle Merritt reportedly made the diagnosis to an elderly woman, in her 70s, after analysing her lifestyle.
He is believed to have told Glacier Media: “She has some heart failure… she lives in a trailer, no air conditioning. All of her health problems have all been worsened. And she’s really struggling to stay hydrated.
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“If we’re not looking at the underlying cause, and we’re just treating the symptoms, we’re just gonna keep falling further and further behind. It’s me trying to just… process what I’m seeing.”
He added: “We’re in the emergency department, we look after everybody, from the most privileged to the most vulnerable, from cradle to grave, we see everybody. And it’s hard to see people, especially the most vulnerable people in our society, being affected.
“It’s frustrating.”
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Merritt’s diagnosis comes after Canada has reportedly recorded some of the hottest temperatures this summer.
According to experts, British Columbia has experienced temperatures as high as 49.6C, which apparently would have been ‘impossible’ without climate change.
In an interview with BBC News, Dr Friederike Otto, from the University of Oxford, said: “Without the additional greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, in the statistics that we have available with our models, and also the statistical models based on observations, such an event just does not occur.
“Or if an event like this occurs, it occurs once in a million times, which is the statistical equivalent of never.”
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