Murcia (EFE).- A 42-year-old Moroccan man has died of a “heat stroke” at the Santa Lucía hospital in Cartagena, to which he was transferred after collapsing on a street in Mazarrón, as confirmed by the Murcia Region Health Department.
The death was known this Thursday, but it took place a day before in the aforementioned health center. This is the first death this year from heat stroke in the Region of Murcia.
Since last Tuesday, the autonomous community has been affected by an anticyclone that has caused thermometers to exceed 40 degrees in almost all of the autonomy, to which an intense haze of Saharan dust has been added.
unconscious on the ground
The man was admitted to the Cartagena hospital after collapsing to the ground on Tuesday evening, when he was in La Majada (Mazarrón) in the company of a compatriot, who was the one who called 112 to ask for help since his friend was unconscious on the ground, according to information released by the newspaper La Opinión de Murcia.
Agents of the Mazarrón Local Police and a mobile emergency unit (UME) attended La Majada, whose health workers transferred the man to the Santa Lucía de Cartagena hospital, where he arrived in critical condition until he died hours later.
The body was transferred to the Institute of Legal Medicine for an autopsy to clarify the cause of death.