aurangabad with the indian meteorological department imd forecasting that the temperature in the city would remain between 40 and 42 degrees celsius for the next couple of days doctors say one should take all necessary precautions to beat the heat with the heat wave on a host of health problems are affecting people in the city the gmch alone is reporting at least five patients suffering from heat exhaustion as per the records from the public health department aurangabad division which comprises four districts aurangabad hingoli parbhani and jalna one death has been reported from hingoli district this year on may 20 meanwhile as many as eight patients have been reported to have suffered from sun stroke of which seven belong to parbhani district and one from aurangabad the patients from parbhani district have recovered while a traffic police official admitted at government medical college and hospital gmch is recovering said the health official prabhakar jirwankar physician at the medicine department gmch said that the traffic cop suffered from sun stroke while on duty the head of the medicine department gmch mangala borkar said that with the rise in temperature since the past one month the hospital has been witnessing an average of five patients daily in the opd suffering from heat exhaustion most of them complain of vomiting diarrhoea fever loss of appetite weakness and muscle cramps she said kishore pathak a dermatologist said cotton clothes should be worn during summer protect yourself by using sunscreen lotion carrying an umbrella while going out adequate quantity of fluid in the form of juices buttermilk or water should be consumed he added its best to have homemade food said kuldeepsing raul a general physician avoid outside food and ensure that the water you drink is clean he said