Key points

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

For yesterday (August 4):

• 17 visits to emergency rooms for heat-related illnesses; these visits mainly involved adults aged 75 and older (65%). The primary cause was dehydration. Five of these visits occurred in the Drôme department.

• Eight SOS Médecins consultations for heat-related illnesses were reported (the majority of which involved people aged 75 and older).