Three persons need medical care after being hit by insolation in Moldova

15:35 | 07.06.2022 Category: Social

Chisinau, 7 June /MOLDPRES/ - Three people have called physicians’ assistance, after they had been hit by insolation because of high air temperatures. The cases were registered in Chisinau and central Criuleni district last week.

Contacted by MOLDPRES, the spokesman for the National Centre of Pre-Hospital Emergency Medical Assistance, Vladislava Ceban, said that the people had ages between 10 and 71 years. It is about a 10-year-old child, a 27-year-old young man and a man aged 71 years, who was hospitalized for additional medical care. All persons were hit by insolation of the first degree,’’ Ceban noted.

According to physicians, to prevent the negative effects of dog days and insolation, people should avoid excessive exposition to sun in the time interval 11:00-18:00, to wear sun hats, light clothes made of green fabric and drink at least two litres of liquids. At the same time, physicians urge residents to call the doctor after the appearance of the first symptoms of insolation (fever, headache, dizziness, etc.)

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