Key points

4 departments under an orange heat wave alert and 4 departments under a yellow heat wave alert

For yesterday (August 3):

• 16 visits to emergency rooms for heat-related illnesses; these visits mainly involved adults aged 75 and older (44%). More than half of these emergency room visits for heat-related illnesses resulted in hospitalization.

• Six SOS Médecins consultations for heat-related illnesses were reported (50% of which involved people aged 75 and older).