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France’s Heat Wave Crisis | France News
France’s hospitals are fighting a new kind of emergency: extreme heat. As a deadly heat wave hit, one Paris hospital resorted to stealing ice from fast-food joints and supermarkets—its own machine broken. Now, the government’s pouring 100 million euros into cooling systems and buying 30,000 AC units to protect patients. The WHO warns this is just a dress rehearsal for hotter summers ahead, with heat waves becoming deadly routine. ERs overflowed with heatstroke victims across all ages, and doctors say the heat is a brutal physical assault. Hospitals are scrambling to retrofit old buildings and…
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