A 42-year-old man dies in a hospital in Cartagena (Murcia) from a "heat stroke"

A 42-year-old Moroccan man has died of a “heat stroke” at the Santa Lucía de Cartagena hospital to which he was transferred after collapsing on a street in Mazarrón, as confirmed by the Murcia Region Health Department.

The death was announced this Thursday, but it took place yesterday at the aforementioned health center and it is the first death this year from a heat stroke in this autonomous community, which since last Tuesday was hit by an anticyclone that has caused thermometers to exceed 40 degrees in almost the entire area, added to an intense haze due to Saharan dust..

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 the Majada, whose toilets 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..