{"id":65496,"date":"2024-07-10T13:42:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T04:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/10\/japan-adds-most-severe-category-to-its-heatstroke-index-amid-deadly-summer"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:42:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T04:42:54","slug":"japan-adds-most-severe-category-to-its-heatstroke-index-amid-deadly-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65496","title":{"rendered":"Japan adds \u2018most severe\u2019 category to its heatstroke index amid deadly summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals are stretched to their limits during unseasonably early heatwave, as medical authorities liken public health risk to a \u2018natural disaster\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Medical experts in Japan are to add a \u201cmost severe\u201d category to the current heatstroke index, amid warnings that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/08\/japan-heatstroke-alerts-heatwave-weather-death-toll\">extreme heat<\/a> is straining medical services and causing damage to public health comparable to that in a \u201cnatural disaster\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese Association for Acute Medicine said it would add a fourth category to the three-level classification later this year in an attempt to reduce deaths from heatstroke.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/10\/japan-adds-most-severe-category-to-its-heatstroke-index-amid-deadly-summer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals are stretched to their limits during unseasonably early heatwave, as medical authorities liken public health risk to a \u2018natural disaster\u2019Medical experts in Japan are to add a \u201cmost severe\u201d category to the current heatstroke index, amid warnin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,455,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-extreme-weather","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65497,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65496\/revisions\/65497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}