: Without mitigating measures, the health effects of heat stress will worsen considerably in India #IndiaNEWS “When you switch the fan on, the air inside the room blows like fire,�? 50-year-old Dolena

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Without mitigating measures, the health effects of heat stress will worsen considerably in India #IndiaNEWS
“When you switch the fan on, the air inside the room blows like fire,�? 50-year-old Dolena Khatoon says with an emphasis on the word aagun which means “fire�? in the Bengali language. The ageing slum resident points to what appears to be a jumble of plastic tarpaulin, bamboo scaffolding, and tin, that makes up her home in the northern part of Kolkata, a metropolis in east India.It is September and a short but intense evening spell has just preceded our chat outside her residence – one in a row of hundreds of such densely packed, matchbox-like shapes, haphazardly draped in heat-trapping materials like tin or plastic tarp.Her neighbour, F Khatoon, adds: “When we need some air, we move out and try to sit in the shade of a tree, because even in the evening the interiors seem to boil despite switching on the fan.�? F Khatoon’s is a family of 12 trying to cope with the high humidity and hot air trapped inside their window-less two-storey home, with four fans. Two are clasped to the ceiling and the rest are portable fans. “We got electricity connection only a couple of years ago. Otherwise, running a fan would have been a distant dream,�? the...Read more

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