Ahmedabad adopts South Asia's first heat action plan
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.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Heat action plan · policy · not located
- Ahmedabad · city · India
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Building Resilience to Climate Change: Pilot Evaluation of the Impact of India's First Heat Action Plan on All-Cause Mortality
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.
Journal of Environmental and Public Health · 2018 · Partly verified
Hess, J. J. et al., Journal of Environmental and Public Health, vol. 2018, article 7973519, doi:10.1155/2018/7973519