nashik with mercury hovering around 40 degrees celsius in and around nashik over the past few days the nashik zilla parishad has set up a team of doctors to deal with cases of heatwave occurring in the rural districtthe team of doctors will work as a control room to coordinate with doctors at the taluka and villagelevel to ensure that the doctors medicines drinking water and oral rehydration therapy are available at all the medical facilities and relevant places so that people suffering from sunstroke are provided timely treatmentmeanwhile nashik zilla parishad chief executive officer naresh gite has instructed all primary health centres in rural district to ensure that they keep all necessary medicines available if they get any patient suffering from heatstrokesenior officials of the zilla parishad have instructed the doctors at rural hospitals primary health centres and subcentres to appeal to the people to not venture out in the sunif a person starts vomiting feeling off balance or the body temperature goes up significantly no time should be wasted in taking medical help though no case of heatwave has been registered anywhere in the district the blazing sun is keeping people indoors most of the time a health department official saidthe zp health administrations guidelines include not to keep children or pets in a closed parked vehicle avoid venturing out from 12pm to 330pm avoid wearing dark tight clothes avoid physical work if the outdoor temperature is too high avoid cooking during peak summer and always keep the windows and door of the kitchen opencitizens are also advised to drink plenty of water even if they are not feeling thirsty wear light clothes make use of goggles cap umbrella keep a water bottle handy while travelling keep animals in shades and provide them with sufficient drinking water bathe with cold water finish maximum work in the early hours of the day among others