<p>A TV anchor fainted while reading heatwave updates live on air due to a sudden drop in blood pressure, several publication reported on Sunday.</p><p>Lopamudra Sinha, a <em>Doordarshan</em> anchor in Kolkata, could be heard slurring as she read the information before blacking out. </p><p>Sharing the video on her Facebook page, Lopamudra said, "The teleprompter faded away and I blacked out. But luckily, it happened while a 30 to 40 seconds animation was playing out on television. During that time, I collapsed on my chair."</p><p>Lopamudra claimed that she fainted due to intense heat and because her blood pressure plummeted suddenly. </p>. <p>She also stated that the studio was extremely hot due to some snag in the cooling system. She also mentioned feeling ill and parched prior to Thursday's morning broadcast.</p><p>"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," the anchor said in Bangla.</p>.Intense heatwave grips parts of India. <p>Furthermore, she claimed that because as general stories were running without any bytes, she was not getting a chance to drink any water. </p><p>"Towards the end (of the bulletin), a byte came and I used the opportunity to drink some water," she added.</p><p>She somehow finished reading two stories after consuming the water, and two more were unfinished when she fainted. She said that her speech began to slur while she was reading a heatwave story.</p><p>Some men were seen rushing to her aid as she passed out and splashed water on her face.</p><p>Sinha also apologised to her channel for the incident and thanked the producers for handling the broadcast after she fainted.</p>
<p>A TV anchor fainted while reading heatwave updates live on air due to a sudden drop in blood pressure, several publication reported on Sunday.</p><p>Lopamudra Sinha, a <em>Doordarshan</em> anchor in Kolkata, could be heard slurring as she read the information before blacking out. </p><p>Sharing the video on her Facebook page, Lopamudra said, "The teleprompter faded away and I blacked out. But luckily, it happened while a 30 to 40 seconds animation was playing out on television. During that time, I collapsed on my chair."</p><p>Lopamudra claimed that she fainted due to intense heat and because her blood pressure plummeted suddenly. </p>. <p>She also stated that the studio was extremely hot due to some snag in the cooling system. She also mentioned feeling ill and parched prior to Thursday's morning broadcast.</p><p>"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," the anchor said in Bangla.</p>.Intense heatwave grips parts of India. <p>Furthermore, she claimed that because as general stories were running without any bytes, she was not getting a chance to drink any water. </p><p>"Towards the end (of the bulletin), a byte came and I used the opportunity to drink some water," she added.</p><p>She somehow finished reading two stories after consuming the water, and two more were unfinished when she fainted. She said that her speech began to slur while she was reading a heatwave story.</p><p>Some men were seen rushing to her aid as she passed out and splashed water on her face.</p><p>Sinha also apologised to her channel for the incident and thanked the producers for handling the broadcast after she fainted.</p>