Heatwave effect: Doordarshan anchor in West Bengal faints on air while reading weather forecast | Watch video
NDTV, an anchor with the Kolkata branch of Doordarshan – Lopamudra Sinha – was heard slurring while reading out the information before she blacked out. "The teleprompter faded away and I blacked out... I collapsed on my chair," she said in a video shared on her Facebook page.
Later, Sinha clarified that she fainted citing intense heat and her blood pressure plummeted suddenly. She even noted that there was extreme heat inside the studio due to some snag in the cooling system. ALSO READ: Odisha heatwave: Government declares summer vacations in all schools from 25 April Apart from this, Sinha added that before the morning broadcast on Thursday, she was feeling unwell and parched.
"I never keep a water bottle with me. Be it a fifteen-minute or half an hour broadcast, I have never felt the need to sip water during broadcasts in my 21 years of career. But, I felt parched even as 15 minutes were left for the broadcast to end.
When the TV was showing visuals and not my face, I pointed to the floor manager and asked for a bottle of water," she said in FB post in Bangla. Among other things, Sinha said wasn't getting a chance to have some water s general stories were running without any bytes. "Towards the end (of the bulletin), a byte came and I used the opportunity to drink some water." Though she completed two stories after drinking the water, she fainted when wo others were still pending.
"While reading a heatwave story, my speech started getting slurred. I tried to complete my presentation. The teleprompter faded away and I blacked out.
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