Heat: Hyperthermia at the Chu in Montpellier, "Voltage Hospital" in Nîmes and perpignan... Heat Hits Emergency Services Under Pressure
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After the hospital of Perpignan on Tuesday, it is the turn of the CHU of Nîmes, on July 2, 2025, to trigger the plan "hospital in tension" level 2. With the persistent heats, the emergency of the establishment is overflowed.
In the Great East, Public Health France attributes nearly 1,500 deaths to heat in the summers of 2022, 2023 and 2024. In emergencies, caregivers are accustomed to seeing people coming from dehydrated or hyperthermia.
The Nîmes CHU triggered level 2 of the "voltage hospital" plan in the face of the influx of patients affected by the heat wave. In Montpellier, the care of elderly people flies: + 18% in June.
In the context of the persistent heat on the territory and in the face of the exceptional influx of patients observed in recent days at the emergency reception service of the Nîmes UHC, the establishment launched, on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, the level 2 of the "voltage hospital" plan. The high temperature level leads to a marked increase in the passages to emergencies, especially among the elderly, chronic patients, and vulnerable audiences. Thi…
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