Toledo/Ciudad Real (EFE) who dies from these causes during the current heat wave in Spain.
This farmer suffered heat stroke around 3:00 p.m. this Monday and, feeling unwell, was taken by the people who were with him to the Argamasilla de Alba Health Center, where he arrived unconscious, as reported to EFE the emergency service 112.
These same sources have indicated that the staff of the Health Center called the Emergency Service headquarters to request a helicopter with which he was transferred to the General Hospital of Ciudad Real, where he died shortly after, the Health Service of Ciudad Real confirmed to EFE. Castile-La Mancha (Sescam).
After learning about the event, the Minister of Agriculture, Water and Rural Development of Castilla-La Mancha, Francisco Martínez Arroyo, has transferred his condolences to the family and friends of the victim on social networks.
Extreme caution for farmers in the face of heat stroke
In addition, he has asked farmers and ranchers to take extreme precautions if they work outdoors in the face of this “terrible” heat wave and has also asked that “maximum protection” be ensured for wage earners in the agricultural sector.
This Monday, the province of Ciudad Real has been one of the areas of Spain that have been on orange alert due to high temperatures, with maximums that have been around 40 degrees.
This is the second farmer to die from a heat stroke during the heat wave that is affecting Spain these days, since on Saturday June 24 another 47-year-old farmer died in Aznalcóllar (Seville) victim of a heat stroke that It happened when he was plowing a field.
The man, who suffered from previous pathologies, was treated after fainting in the field and, already senseless, was transferred around 1:00 p.m. by his children to the local health center, where he was admitted with a fever of about 41 degrees and died. in the place.