(20 Jun 2024)
BALKANS HEAT HEALTH
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mostar, Bosnia – 20 June 2024
1. Wide of the Old Bridge, people standing by the river under the bridge
2. People walking in the street past a display showing the temperature at 40 degrees Celsius
3. Close of the display showing the temperature is at 40 degrees Celsius
4. Man washing his face at a public drinking fountain
5. People walking in the street
6. Woman washing her hand and neck at a public drinking fountain
7. Wide of a mostly empty street
8. External air conditioner units on the wall of a residential building
9. An ambulance driving through a street
10. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Dr Eniz Colakovic, head of the Public Health Institute, Mostar:
“(Heat-related) health problems primarily include sunstroke and heat exhaustion, as well as dehydration, that is, the loss of fluids. Sunstroke is among the most serious problems because it involves failure of the body’s thermoregulatory mechanisms due to overheating of the head, back of the head, and it often impacts numerous people. It is characterized by dry skin, increased body temperature, headache, overall weakness and dizziness, and it can result in a coma or even, in some cases, death.”
11. Two men spreading water on a street with brooms
12. Man drinking water from a water hose
13. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Dr Eniz Colakovic, head of the Public Health Institute Mostar:
“What happens is that the blood vessels dilate, heart tries pumping more fresh, cold blood to the brain, but as blood vessels are dilated due to overheating, this can cause oedema and lead to tragic outcomes.”
14. Group of tourists walking shaded by umbrellas
15. Wide of a mostly empty street of Mostar
16. Men sitting in a cafe, under the cover of a sun shade
17. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Alija Hajdarevic, Mostar resident:
“Atmospheric pressure changes a lot throughout a day and even young people are impacted, everybody has a headache. Many more young people are experiencing heart problems than before, people in their 50s have heart attacks.”
18. People walking in the street
19. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Alija Hajdarevic, Mostar resident:
“Hot nights are the worst when temperatures remain at 37 or 38 degrees Celsius, that characterizes really tough days. When it is hot during the day, all you can do is stay away (from the sun).”
20. People walking on a shady side of a street
21. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Jasmin Orucevic, Mostar resident:
“What can I do, what? There is no solution. I must report at the (public) retirement service and I am already drenched in sweat. We have no solution, only to endure this and suffer.”
22. Woman with a child and a baby in stroller walking next to a water fountain
23. Woman sitting in a café, in the shade of a tree
24. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Mia Herceg, Mostar resident:
“As far as elderly are concerned, you won’t see them in the streets during the day, only in the evening. We can see that ambulances work at full capacity, I believe that (elderly) are taking this (heat) really hard. It is not easy for us who are young, let alone the elderly.”
25. Herceg sitting with a child in the shade of a tree
26. Various of people underneath the Old Bridge, standing in, swimming in the river
27. Low angle shot of people standing on the Old Bridge
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pristina, Kosovo – 20 June 2024
28. An empty square in Pristina
29. Elderly men sitting on a bench in the shade of a tree
30. Wide of a nearly deserted pedestrian street
33. Various close of computer screen
38. Water fountain in park
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