Re: medical tratment in paris

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 Mxsmanic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Jenn writes:
> 
> > the hospitals sent people home to die 
> 
> When?
> 
> The hospitals were just as hot as the homes; they weren't air
> conditioned, either.
> 
> You can't help people with hyperthermia if you have no way to keep them
> cool.

There were many public buildings with air conditioning e.g. the Louvre 
-- in a health emergency you commandeer those spaces  [there were huge 
malls with lots of space that were relatively cool as well]  And 
dehydration is met by rehydrating people and using fans -- not sending 
them home
> 
> > ... the health system did not gear up when they saw
> > the impact of the heat to identify and secure 
> > vulnerable people ...
> 
> The only way to "secure" those people would be with air conditioning,
> which they did not have.

there was time to obtain and cool large spaces e.g. schools etc if it 
had been recognized and treated as a public health emergency

> 
> > ... it was a failure in the health system ...
> 
> It was--and remains--a failure to understand the correct way to deal
> with heat: air conditioning.