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A 56-year-old man has died this afternoon of heat stroke while

working mailing advertising in the mailboxes of chalets in the Madrid town of Paracuellos de Jarama

, a spokesman for the Community of Madrid 112 Emergency has reported.

The events occurred on Sol street,

in the Altos de Jarama urbanization,

at 3:45 p.m. this Thursday.

The man was handing out flyers to houses in the area when, at one point

, he became dizzy and fell to the ground.

Then, he began to convulse and went into cardiorespiratory arrest.

He had a 42 degree body temperature.

The first to arrive at the scene were the toilets

, an ambulance from the local Civil Protection

, which began basic carpiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers.

Later, the SUMMA112 team arrived and continued advanced CPR for 35 minutes.

But finally the patient passed away and they confirmed his death.

200 heat deaths

The Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII), dependent on the Ministry of Health, has estimated that there have been more than 200 deaths attributed to high temperatures in the last week,

between July 12 and 19, in the Community of Madrid .

The latest data collected by the Daily Mortality Monitoring (MoMo) statistic due to excess temperature is that referring to Tuesday 19, which is the maximum peak, with 39 estimated deaths in one day.

In the last seven days, from the 12th to the 19th, the number of people whose death is attributed to high temperatures reaches the figure of 219, which rises to 232 if the heat wave is taken into account, which started on Sunday the 10th, according to Europe Press.

In the last week, since the eleven deaths on Tuesday the 12th, the number of deaths has been increasing every day: 15 on Wednesday the 13th;

22 on Thursday the 14th and 28 on Friday the 15th. Since then,

there would have been a continuous escalation to the peak of 39 deaths recorded on Tuesday the 19th

, one more than the previous day, when 38 were recorded.

The weekend added 66 deaths due to high temperatures, with 35 on Sunday and 31 on Saturday, according to figures from the ISCIII MoMo system, which makes statistical estimates of excess mortality for a given day by comparing historical series.

"It calculates and infers values ​​related to all causes and attributable to temperature, not exact numbers of deaths. That is, the figures seen in the MoMo Panel are not deceased persons (it is not a death record), but the result of the statistical calculation in the form of an estimate. In short, it is not correct to say that this heat wave has caused X deaths of people", sources from the ISCIII have explained.

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