2023-08-23 20:49:59
Every day, the emergency department records around 300 to 350 entries, but they are not necessarily linked to high temperatures.
The activity in the emergency room of the Pasteur 2 hospital in Nice runs at full speed during the summer period. Every day, the service records “around 300 to 350 entries”, said Wednesday Didier Giolito, vice-head of emergencies at the Nice University Hospital on the BFM Nice Côte d’Azur set.
Entries “not always linked to the heatwave episode”
A number on the rise but usual for the season, puts the doctor into perspective. “We actually see, like every summer, more emergency admissions than at other times of the year,” said Didier Giolito.
With one difference. This summer, the Alpes-Maritimes department, which experienced a first heat wave in July, recorded strong heat at the end of August. The department has been placed on heat wave orange vigilance by Météo-France for several days.
But according to the vice-head of emergencies at the Nice University Hospital, these high temperatures have moderate consequences on emergencies. The entries “are not always linked to this heat wave episode, affirms Didier Giolito. It is the general influx that we can have in emergencies.”
“We cannot say that because of the heat wave, we have a massive influx as we experienced in 2003 in the emergency room and fortunately”, supports the doctor.
In 2003, France was hit by a heat wave that killed more than 20,000 people nationwide. That summer, “elderly people in nursing homes or possibly at home overloaded the emergency service, remembers Didier Giolito. And unfortunately, some people died in the emergency room.”
A record never recorded
Twenty years later, more elderly people are admitted to the Nice University Hospital emergency room “but like every summer with people who become dehydrated and who do not necessarily follow the recommendations”, underlines Didier Giolito.
On Monday, July 24, the emergency department of Pasteur 2 hospital recorded “an unprecedented record with 361 entries”, concluded the vice-head of the emergency department.
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