Ahmedabad adopts South Asia's first heat action plan

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2. Following a severe May 2010 heatwave with a measurable excess-mortality signal, the municipal corporation adopted a threshold-based early warning and response plan covering health services, outdoor workers and vulnerable communities. It has since been replicated across many Indian cities and states.
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12. Building Resilience to Climate Change: Pilot Evaluation of the Impact of India's First Heat Action Plan on All-Cause Mortality
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17. Supports the statement that summer all-cause mortality in Ahmedabad after the 2013 Heat Action Plan, compared against a 2007–2010 baseline, implies on the order of eleven to twelve hundred deaths avoided annually. V55 verification basis: the citation, journal, year and DOI were retrieved from the publisher listing, but the article was not opened; the deaths-avoided figure comes from secondary summaries of it and the study describes itself as a pilot evaluation.