Over 300 people per 24 hours high temperatures increase the number of patients in Emergency

The director of this clinic, Basri Lenyan, tells of Economy Online, that within 24 hours they treat about 320 patients.

In the last days, this number has grown to 10 percent because of the high temperatures that are ruling in our country.

This number has reached greater these days. From the percentage account for between 5 per cent and 10 per cent are those who seek emergency medical assistance because of the direct impact of temperatures that could affect their health situation”, Lenyan said.

Lenyan added that the most endangered category is the chronically ill, people who have had strokes and seizures and hypertension.

The most at stake are people who suffer from chronic diseases that have previously had seizures from heart disease as a heart attack, from heart rate disorders from hypertension from metabolic diseases from”, Lenyan said.

He appealed to patients these types of health problems, not to expose the sun's rays from 11 to 17, since it can affect the deteriorating condition of their health.

“Zaconally people who have chronic problems between 11 and 17 o'clock should not be exposed to sun disease because the sun's rays have a negative impact on their state of health, especially on those who have a stroke, heart attack or chronic epileptic disease can reactalize health problems”, he said.

Lenyan also gives advice on this category of patients who need to hold back, reports EO.

“Persons who are chronically ill do well to consult the family doctor, to take the steps outlined by their doctor, or by an expert doctor, to receive enough food, a diet rich in vitamins and fluids, in 24 hours to take up to two liters of”, Lenyan said.

As for the capacity and opportunity of the Emergency Clinic to cope with the potential flow of patients, Lenyan says that they are already accustomed to these conditions and that they have no serious problem.

But he appealed to local family medicine and hospital centres not to refer patients who are not emergency.

“Clinic Emergency Medicine is not the first time that faces such problems despite this even the levels of willingness of the family medical centre and regional hospitals we have only agreed on those cases which have compromise of vital signs and deterioration and their situation that cannot be managed in their institutions can be sent to them, he concluded.