Key points

4 departments under an orange heat wave alert and 3 departments under a yellow heat wave alert

For yesterday (August 1):

• 18 visits to emergency rooms for heat-related illnesses; these visits mainly involved adults aged 45 and older (83%). The majority of these emergency room visits for heat-related illnesses were followed by hospitalization (67%).

• One SOS Médecins consultation for heat-related illnesses involving a person aged 75 and older was reported.