“My 96-year-old father almost fainted from the heat!
exclaims a woman on the phone.
Visibly lifted, this sexagenarian called the toll-free number “Heatwave info service” (
0800 06 66 66, free call from a landline in mainland France, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
).
She is looking for an interlocutor to bring up the situation in which the old man finds himself as well as other patients, hospitalized in the west of France.
“It is over 30°C in their hospital room,” she laments.
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