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Friday, August 29, 2003   Dying Slowly I've had heat exhaustion twice, while fighting fires. It sucks, but I cannot imagine the slow, agonizing death from hyperthermia that over 11,000 French suffered. It just boggles my mind... French Deaths Up Sharply in Hot August By JAMEY KEATEN ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS (AP) - In the most startling figures yet, French health officials said Friday that 11,435 more people died during the sweltering first two weeks of August than during the same period in recent years. The number far exceeded the government's initial estimates of the death toll from the blistering heat and was 4,200 more deaths than France suffered in road accidents in the whole of 2002. From Aug. 1-15, when much of Europe baked in record temperatures, nearly 800 more people died each day in France than usual, according to the figures from the Health Ministry. "These figures were calculated in an extremely precise manner," said Gilles Brucker, director of the Health Surveillance Institute that put the death toll together. Brucker told France-2 television "today's is a totally precise figure of deaths linked to the heat between Aug. 1 and 15." The toll embroiled the center-right government in fresh accusations that it reacted too slowly to the crisis. Many victims were elderly, dying alone at home or in overwhelmed hospitals and nursing homes. Las Vegas Sun via Rantburg From the blog Fainting in Coyles: My father lives in France and is ill. Thus has to go hospital for a week or so. A month back he did this before. He had the op and was left attached to a bank of monitors alonmgside 51 other patients. The nurses spend there time in a control room watching the screens for flatlines. After couple of days recuperation he asked if he could use the shower, no problem came the response from the cardiologist.. Consternation in the control room. There are 2 baths and one shower for 51 people. However no patient had ever asked to wash before, so the three rooms were store cupboards. After half an hours� work the shower was freed for use. Great thought father, human again. When he asked the next day his request was greeted with a polite but stone faced refusal, the storeroom was back in operation. So, tell me again, why are the French so much better than us? -- posted by Chuck at Friday, August 29, 2003 | E-mail | Permalink | Main | 0 comments