119 dispatch for heat-related illness has quadrupled in four years
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The proportion of elderly patients over 65 years old peaked at 115 people per day on the 11th.
The proportion of elderly patients over 65 years old peaked at 115 people per day on the 11th. As the heat wave rages every summer, the number of 119 emergency services dispatched after reports of heat-related illnesses and the number of hospital transfers were found to have quadrupled over the past four years. This month, the scale of human casualties is increasing, with 115 people suffering from heat-related illnesses in just one day. On the afternoon of the 11th, in the yard of a house in Yeongdong, North Chungcheong Province...
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