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Up to 40°C, drownings and 1300 phone calls per day: at the Toulouse Samu with the victims of the heat wave

2022-07-20T15:29:30.398Z


Young or old… With the mercury at 35-40 degrees for days, organisms are cracking up. We spent a day at the reception center


The doctor keeps his hands on his heavy eyelids.

All night, he suffered heavy gunfire, calls to the sick chain, the body baked by the heat, bubbling in the sheets, suffocating babies, panicked parents.

Barely has he slept two hours, it will be fine, it is already good, judge Vincent Bounes.

“The heat wave, believe me, we are in it”, cowardly, groggy, the boss of the Samu at the Toulouse University Hospital (Haute-Garonne), after a night so hot that we cannot find an equivalent for him.

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Source: leparis

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