The province is being urged to come up with a plan to track “heat dome injuries” after the unprecedented heat wave late last month that’s been linked to 570 deaths.
The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment and the West Coast Environmental Law Association say heat injuries, not just deaths, should be tracked.
They say thousands of people across B-C sought medical help for conditions like heat stroke and dehydration, but there’s no way to track the extent of the problem.
The head of the doctors’ group says physicians should be able to submit to the province a specific billing and diagnostic code for heat illnesses as they have been doing for services related to COVID-19.
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